U.S. News & World Report has released its first global ranking of colleges and universities.
Five hundred universities in 49 countries were evaluated based on 10 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global reputations, according to the magazine.
Eight of the world’s 10 best universities are located in the U.S., according to rankings.
The following universities are listed in ascending order, with the top school receiving a perfect score of 100 points.
No. 10
Columbia University
77.3 points
New York
No. 9
University of Chicago
77.4 points
Chicago
No. 8
University of California-Los Angeles
80.1 points
Los Angeles
No. 7
California Institute of Technology
80.3 points
Pasadena, Calif.
No. 6
University of Cambridge
83.3 points
Cambridge, U.K.
No. 5
University of Oxford
83.6 points
Oxford, U.K.
No. 4
Stanford University
85.1 points
Stanford, Calif.
No. 3
University of California—Berkeley
88.0 points
Berkeley, Calif.
No. 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
88.9 points
Cambridge, Mass.
No. 1
Harvard University
100 points
Cambridge, Mass.
For the complete list of 500 universities click here.
