U.S. News: 10 Florida universities rank among the best in the world

 

U.S. News: 10 Florida universities rank among the best in the world

Ten Florida universities are on a list of 2,000 identified by U.S. News & World Report as the best in the world.

Ranked 98th on the list and the top Florida school was the University of Florida in Gainesville. It’s the third-largest Florida university by student population and the fifth-largest single-campus university in the U.S.

Florida State University in Tallahassee ranked 241; the University of Miami at Coral Gables ranked 253; the University of South Florida in Tampa ranked 317; University of Central Florida in Orlando ranked 413; Florida International University in Miami ranked 468; Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne ranked 912; Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton ranked 1,088; Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale ranked 1,106; Florida A&M University in Tallahassee ranked 1,478.

U.S. News & World Report’s 2023 Best Global Universities list ranked more than 2,000 schools in 95 countries based on academic research and reputation. This year’s included an additional 250 schools, up from 1,750 last year.

The ninth annual Best Global Universities rankings “focus specifically on schools' academic research and reputation overall and not on their separate undergraduate or graduate programs.” The rankings were created to help applicants compare institutions around the world “since an increasing number of students plan to enroll in universities outside of their own country,” the report states. The rankings also provide insight into how U.S. universities, which U.S. News has ranked for nearly 40 years, stand globally.

Four of the top five institutions are American. Harvard University ranked first; followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of California – Berkeley. Ranking fifth, rounding out the top five, was the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.

The top five countries with the greatest number of institutions on the list were China (338), the U.S. (280), Japan (105), the United Kingdom (92), and India (81).

U.S. News evaluated 13 ranking factors and analyzed data and metrics provided by global analytics company Clarivate to compile the rankings. Factors included global research reputation, regional research reputation, number of publications that are among the 10% most cited, among others.

U.S. News & World Report earlier this year ranked Florida first in the U.S. for tuition and fees and first for higher education overall since its rankings inception in 2017.