I don’t pay much attention to the rankings - and maybe there’s an obvious reason that I’m missing - but why would their “Global Ranking (US Colleges Only)” have schools ranked differently than their “National Ranking”?
focus exclusively on institutions’ overall academic research and reputations and not on their separate undergraduate or graduate programs
So this isn’t just a list of undergraduate institutions.
Anyway, I find a “global” ranking not very helpful given the vast differences between education systems across the globe. Not just in terms of academics, but also differences in college culture, focus, cost, etc.
I imagine the number of students and families comparison shopping across the globe is a very small, very wealthy group.
Not a very big group, but those applying to funded PhD programs (which are most closely related to “overall academic research and reputations”) may not necessarily be “very” wealthy.
The US News Global Ranking methodology is all about research output that heavily favors large research institutions, particularly those with medical schools. I don’t know for what and for whom such ranking is useful.
Global research reputation: 12.5%
Regional research reputation: 12.5%
Publications: 10%
Books: 2.5%
Conferences: 2.5%
Normalized citation impact: 10%
Total citations: 7.5%
Number of publications that are among the 10% most cited: 12.5%
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited: 10%
International collaboration – relative to country: 5%
International collaboration: 5%
Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1% most cited in their respective field: 5%
Percentage of total publications that are among the top 1% most highly cited papers: 5%
