U.S. News: 2 Washington Colleges Among Best In The World

American universities dominate U.S. News & World Report’s rankings of 2020’s best global universities, a list that evaluates 1,500 schools across the globe on academic research and reputation.

The global rankings differ from U.S. News’ rankings of the best colleges and best graduate schools. The publication explains that no data from either of those two lists factors in compiling the global university rankings.

Harvard University ranked no.1 on the list, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California at Berkeley and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Seattle's University of Washington landed in the top 10.

U.S. News stresses that the newly released rankings specifically focus on academic research and overall reputation of the schools and not on the undergraduate and graduate programs. In the global rankings, schools are also assessed in subjects like business, economics, engineering and computer science. The individual subject rankings are intended to measure a school’s global position in a field.

The Washington colleges on U.S. News’ list are:

University of Washington (#8)

Washington State University (#89)

“As the Best Global Universities rankings continue to expand in number of schools and subjects to fulfill the needs of prospective students, we remain consistent in our mission to evaluate schools around the world on their research,” Robert Morse, chief data strategist at U.S. News, said in a press release. “A major emphasis on academic research is what sets this methodology apart from our other university rankings.”

See all of 2020’s top global universities via U.S. News & World Report.