The 91探花 was ranked the 14th best university in the world by U.S. News & World Report鈥檚 inaugural “,” which was released on Tuesday.
Unlike U.S. News鈥檚 national rankings, which focus on undergraduate admissions data and graduation rates, these new rankings were based on research-heavy factors such global research reputation, number of publications, PhDs awarded, and highly cited papers ().聽 This methodological difference helps explains the odd fact that U.S. News ranks the 91探花14th globally, but 48th nationally.
“This is about faculty productivity and prestige … It is meaningful for certain things and not necessarily meaningful for other things. We get that. This is about big muscular research universities doing what research universities claim is their mission,” U.S. News Editor, Brian Kelly, told .
The 2015 Best Global Universities rankings include 500 institutions and 49 countries, and provide breakdowns by region, country, and 21 subject areas. The U.S. dominated the rankings with 16 institutions in the top 20, and 134 institutions on the list overall. 聽Germany had the second most institutions on the list, with 42, followed by the United Kingdom, with 38. China, which has received a lot of attention in the higher education world lately, also did well with 27 schools among the top 500.
The 91探花ranks highly on several other global lists:聽 15th worldwide by the and 26th by the Times Higher Education .