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Originally Posted by dave8721
The ranking looks very different from USNews US universities ranking. For example they have University of Washington as the #8 in the world in their global ranking but only #58 in the US in their US ranking.
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Well the 2 rankings look at different things...
US News National Ranking Methodology:
Graduation and Retention Rates 22%
Undergraduate Academic Reputation 20%
Faculty Resources 20%
Financial Resources Per Student 10%
Graduation Rate Performance 8%
Selectivity for Fall Entering Class 7%
Graduate Indebtedness 5%
Social Mobility 5%
Alumni Giving Rate 3%
https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...d-the-rankings
US News Global Ranking Methodology:
Global Research Reputation 12.5%
Number of Publications that are among the 10% most cited
Regional Research Reputation 12.5%
Normalized Citation Impact 10%
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited
Total Citations 7.5%
Publications 10%
International Collaboration-relative to country 5%
Number of highly cited papers that are among the top %1 most cited in their respective field
Percentage of total publications that are among the top 1% most highly cited papers
Books 2.5%
Conferences 2.5%
https://www.usnews.com/education/bes...es/methodology
As you can see, the Natl Ranking focuses a lot more on student well being, which is important too, however the global ranking focuses entirely on academic reputation, peer review, citations, publications etc