Mainbackground
Theoriginofuniversityrankingscanbetracedbackto1870.TheannualreportoftheFederalBureauofEducationranksuniversitiesbasedonthedatatheyhave.Themodernuniversityrankingswerepublishedin1983by"U.S.News&WorldReport"(U.S.News&WorldReport).Theoriginalintentofuniversityrankingsistoevaluatethequalityofcollegesanduniversitiesandtodemonstratetheinfluenceofcollegesanduniversities.
"U.S.NewsandWorldReport"nationaluniversityrankingshavealwaysbeenthemostinfluentialAmericanuniversityrankings.Inthecontextoftheglobalizationofsociety,inordertomeettheneedsofcandidatesfromallovertheworldtochoosetheidealuniversityonaglobalscale,U.S.Newslaunchedtheglobaluniversityrankingsforthefirsttimein2014,includingthetop500universities.
Rankingindicator
Globalacademicreputation | 12.50 |
Regionalacademicreputation | 12.50 |
Paperpublication | 10 |
Books | 2.50 |
Meeting | 2.50 |
Standardizedpapercitationimpactindex | 10 |
Numberofpapercitations | 7.50 |
Thenumberofcitationsin"upto10%ofpublicationscited" | 12.50 |
Publicationsaccountforthemostcited10%ofpublications"Ratio | 10 |
Internationalcollaboration | 5 |
Percentageoftotalpublicationswithinternationalcooperation | 5 |
Thenumberofcitedpapersinthe"Top1%ofthemostcitedpapersinallpublications"intherepresentativefield | 5 |
PublicationsPercentageof"thetop1%paperscitedinallpublications" | 5 | tr>
Referencematerials:(ReleasedonOctober21,2019)
Rankingresults
2021USNewsWorldUniversityRankings
October20,2020,2021USNewsWorldUniversityTherankingispublished.ThetopthreeareHarvardUniversity,MassachusettsInstituteofTechnology,andStanfordUniversityintheUnitedStates.TherearetwoBritishuniversitiesinthetopten,OxfordUniversityranked5thandCambridgeUniversityranked9th.OnlytheUniversityofTokyoinJapanranksinthetop100,at73.
AtotaloffouruniversitiesinChinaareamongthetop100intheworld,includingTsinghuaUniversity(28),PekingUniversity(51),UniversityofHongKong(83),andTheChineseUniversityofHongKong(95).Inaddition,HongKongUniversityofScienceandTechnology(109),ShanghaiJiaotongUniversity(122),UniversityofScienceandTechnologyofChina(124),ZhejiangUniversity(135),andNanjingUniversity(148)areamongthetop150intheworld.
Relatedevents
July2019,UniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley,ScrippsCollege,MarshillUniversity(MarsHillUniversity),theUniversityofNorthCarolina-PembrokeandJohnson&WalesUniversity(Johnson&WalesUniversity)submittedtheirdataincorrectly,resultingintheiractualrankingshigherthantheoriginalrankings.RemovedfromtherankingofthebestuniversitiesintheUnitedStatesin2019,andallotherschools'rankingsonthelistremainunchanged.Amongthem,thedataonalumnidonationssubmittedbyMarshillUniversityandScrippsCollegeareincorrect;therankingsofhighschoolssubmittedbytheUniversityofNorthCarolinaatPembrokeareincorrect;JohnsonandtheUniversityofWaleshaveoverstatedtheirbudgetsforfinancialresources.
In2012,GeorgeWashingtonUniversitywasremovedfromthecorrespondinglistbyU.S.NewsduetoincorrecthighschoolrankingdatasubmittedbyGeorgeWashingtonUniversity.
