Universities in many regions of the world are vying to enroll students from overseas.
Countries including Canada, Germany and South Korea have set goals to attract tens of thousands more international students to their college campuses over the next several years. These nations are searching globally for top talent in part to bolster their workforces, especially as populations in places such as Germany begin to age.
left their home countries to study abroad in 2012, according to the latest data available from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. To help prospective international students compare institutions around the world, U.S. 草莓传媒 has launched a second, expanded edition of the rankings, which evaluate schools based on academic research performance and reputation.
The overall 2016 Best Global Universities rankings encompass the located around the globe, an increase from the 500 that were included in last year’s inaugural rankings. But the school on top remains the same: , located in Massachusetts in the northeastern U.S.
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Counting Harvard, eight of the top 10 Best Global Universities are found in the U.S. Of those eight U.S. schools, two are public institutions: the No. 3-ranked and the No. 8-ranked . The top 10 is rounded out by two schools in the United Kingdom: the , ranked No. 5, and the , ranked No. 6.
While there was little movement in the top 10 between this year and last, one U.S. school ranked among the top 20 jumped a notable five places. The moved up from the No. 19 spot to a tie with in the U.S. for No. 14. Meanwhile, in the U.K. fell from No. 12 to No. 18.
Overall, 57 countries have institutions featured in the rankings, up from 49 nations last year. With 181 institutions represented, the U.S. has by far the most universities in the top 750. China has the next-highest number of schools, with 57, followed closely by the United Kingdom, with 55 universities making the cut.
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The Best Global Universities rankings, which incorporate data from Thomson Reuters InCites TM research analytics solutions,
In addition to factors such as global research reputation and international collaboration, the U.S. 草莓传媒 methodology expanded this year to include two separate ranking indicators for research published in books and communicated at academic conferences.
Beyond the overall rankings, students can explore how universities stack up against others in the same region or within the same country, as well as in various academic subjects.
New to the 2016 rankings is a regional ranking of universities in . The regional rankings are based entirely on how schools fared in the overall rankings of the top 750 universities worldwide; other regional rankings cover , , and .
The No. 1 university in Africa is the in South Africa. Of the top universities in this region, six are in South Africa, three are in Egypt and one is in Uganda.
The schools that top the other 2016 regional rankings are the reigning No. 1s from 2015: Japan’s in Asia; Australia’s in Australia/New Zealand; the U.K.’s Oxford in Europe; and Brazil’s in Latin America.
This year, there are 32 country-specific rankings available, nearly triple the total published last year. Country rankings are based on how schools ranked among the overall Best Global Universities.
Among the newcomers to the country rankings are , and . There are also rankings for several of the countries that, according to the Institute of International Education, are among the most popular destinations for international students, including the United Kingdom, China, France, Germany, Australia and Canada.
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The Best Global Universities rankings also include the top-performing institutions in 22 key , including engineering; economics and business; and computer science. Subject rankings are based on a , which incorporates several factors that measure academic research and reputation in each of these specific fields. However, the rankings are not of academic majors, departments or schools, such as business or medical schools.
One addition this year is the , which includes fields such as history and philosophy. Oxford in the U.K. is the top-ranked institution in arts and humanities, and Cambridge sits in the No. 2 spot.
Some universities were ranked in all or nearly all of the subject rankings, demonstrating research strength across a broad range of academic fields. Along with a number of institutions in the U.S. and the U.K., several Canadian schools performed well in this respect: The was ranked in all 22 subjects, while and the were ranked in 21.
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