Education
2022-2023 Best Global Universities Rankings Coming Oct. 25
On Tuesday, Oct. 25, U.S. News will release the 2022-2023 Best Global Universities rankings, which focus on schools’ academic research and reputation, not their separate undergraduate or graduate programs. Students can use these rankings to compare universities – including U.S. colleges – globally, regionally and within their own country, as well as by field of study.
The overall Best Global Universities ranking will encompass 2,000 top universities, up from 1,750 last year. The overall ranking includes universities from 95 countries, a slight increase from last year’s 90 countries. In addition, there will be 47 separate subject rankings in fields like clinical medicine, computer science and engineering, up from 43 last year.
U.S. News will once again publish five regional rankings of the top universities in Africa, Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Europe and Latin America. In addition, country-specific rankings will be released again this year. In the 2022-2023 edition, U.S. News will publish more than 45 country rankings – including for these 12 countries with large numbers of ranked schools: Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
U.S. News will publish four new subject area rankings in the following fields:
- Artificial intelligence (100 schools ranked)
- Education and educational research (100 schools ranked)
- Meteorology and atmospheric sciences (100 schools ranked)
- Water resources (100 schools ranked)
U.S. News will continue to publish the 43 subject area rankings included in last year’s edition. These are:
- Agricultural sciences
- Arts and humanities
- Biology and biochemistry
- Biotechnology and applied microbiology
- Cardiac and cardiovascular systems
- Cell biology
- Chemical engineering
- Chemistry
- Civil engineering
- Clinical medicine
- Computer science
- Condensed matter physics
- Economics and business
- Electrical and electronic engineering
- Endocrinology and metabolism
- Energy and fuels
- Engineering
- Environment/ecology
- Food Science and technology
- Gastroenterology and hepatology
- Geosciences
- Immunology
- Infectious diseases
- Materials science
- Mathematics
- Mechanical engineering
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology and genetics
- Nanoscience and nanotechnology
- Neuroscience and behavior
- Oncology
- Optics
- Pharmacology and toxicology
- Physical Chemistry
- Physics
- Plant and animal science
- Polymer science
- Psychiatry/psychology
- Public, environmental and occupational health
- Radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging
- Social sciences and public health
- Space science
- Surgery
The number of schools ranked in eight of 43 existing subject rankings will be increased. Computer science will see an increase of 250, bringing the total ranked to 750. Civil engineering, mechanical engineering, gastroenterology and hepatology, infectious disease and polymer science each see an increase of 100 schools, bringing the total ranked up to 200. Food science and technology, as well as radiology, nuclear medicine and medical imaging will both see an increase of 50, bringing the total ranked up to 250.
To produce the global rankings, which are based on data and metrics provided by Clarivate, U.S. News uses a methodology that focuses on factors that measure research performance. The ranking indicators for the overall ranking include those that measure a university’s global and regional reputation and academic research performance using bibliometric indicators such as citations and publications.
U.S. News uses a separate methodology for the subject-specific rankings that is based on academic research performance in each subject. These subject rankings are not of academic majors, departments or specific schools at a university like a business or medical school. U.S. News uses various bibliometric measures, including publications and citations, as well as indicators for global and regional reputation in each specific subject area.
