Caltech and UCLA grabbed top spots as the 7th and 8th best universities in U.S. News & World Reports‘ inaugural rankings of global institutions of higher learning that were released Tuesday.
The two schools rated as highly in subject rankings with Caltech taking first in programs for geoscience and space science, and UCLA ranking fourth for mathematics and psychiatry/psychology.
The publication has ranked the top U.S. colleges for many years, but this is the first list to include universities around the world.
California dominated the top 10 rankings with four schools — UC Berkeley in third and Stanford in fourth. Oxford and Cambridge — both in England — ranked fifth and sixth as the highest rated universities outside the U.S. USC ranked 50th.
The list includes the top 500 colleges in the world based on research reputation, international collaboration, and doctorates awarded, along with publications and citations.
— Staff and wire reports