Harvard is the world’s best university for the ninth year in a row, according to one list of rankings.
The Center for World University Rankings, a consulting firm that publishes the largest academic ranking of global universities, looked at universities across the world based on four primary indicators: quality of education (25%), alumni employment (25%), quality of faculty (10%), and research performance (40%, consisting of research output, quality of publications, influence, and citations).
These are the top universities in the world, according to the Center for World University Rankings:
1.Harvard University
2.Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3.Stanford University
4.University of Cambridge
5.University of Oxford
6.Columbia University
7.Princeton University
8.University of Pennsylvania
9.University of Chicago
10.Yale University
American colleges and universities have dominated global rankings in the nine-year-old annual analysis. However, the U.S. higher education sector — currently in turmoil amid the coronavirus pandemic — seems to be slipping a bit relative to other schools globally.
“Data has shown that the U.S. higher education is slowly eroding, and the standings of the majority of the U.S. institutions, especially lower down the table, will be at great risk if funding for higher education is cut by the Trump administration,” Dr. Nadim Mahassen, president of the Center for World University Rankings, said in a statement.
Only 16 American universities in the global top 100 list improved their ranking last year while 29 of the colleges dropped and six remained the same. (A full list can be found here.)
‘Rewards for skillfully playing the prestige game are huge’
The main audience for these rankings are “not undergraduates… it’s universities themselves and then also people working in government agencies around the world,” Robert Kelchen, associate professor at Seton Hall University who compiles school rankings for Washington Monthly and has warned about bogus lists, told Yahoo Money.
Kelchen noted that most undergraduates in the U.S. rely on annual U.S. News & World Report rankings, which Washington Monthly views as being based on “crude and easily manipulated measures of wealth, exclusivity, and prestige.”
The Center for World University Rankings started out as a project in Saudi Arabia in 2012 and is now a United Arab Emirates-based consulting group that places a heavy emphasis on publications and citations. In 2015, the Washington Post expressed skepticism for the methodology underlying the organization’s rankings.
About Guide2Uganda
Guide2Uganda (www.guide2uganda.ug) is the most comprehensive source of information about Uganda that exists on the web, with more content on Uganda and surrounding towns, attractions, museums and galleries than any other online guide that currently exists for Uganda as well as being a dynamic news and comprehensive events driven site with content being added daily.
According to WeFollow & Peer Index (whom both measure online influence) we are among the most influential online media organizations in Uganda. We were also awarded for ‘’Best Destination Website in Uganda’’ by Jumia Travel Uganda in the 2017-2018 Africa Travel Awards. If you are planning a visit to Uganda you can always reach us on; info@guide2uganda.ug
