(Oct. 31, 2018) – UTSA has moved up the ranks on a list of the top universities in the world. U.S. News & World Report has named UTSA’s academic and research programs No. 77 among U.S. public academic institutions and No. 421 overall in its 2019 Best Global Universities rankings, up 27 spots from one year ago.

Additionally, UTSA’s clinical medicine program was ranked No. 211, its chemistry program was ranked No. 224 and its engineering program was ranked No. 353.

U.S. News & World Report assessed the top 1,250 institutions across 75 countries and calculated the rankings based on 13 indicators measuring academic and research performance as well as global and regional reputation. They included:

regional and global research reputation

publications

books

conferences

normalized citation impact

total citations

number and percentage of publications among the top 10 percent most cited

international collaboration

percentage of total publications with international collaboration

number and percentage of highly cited papers among the top 1 percent most cited

UTSA scored especially strong in normalized citation impact (No. 113), the regional research reputation category (No. 154) and in international collaboration (No. 141).

Fourteen Texas academic institutions were recognized in the Best Global Universities Ranking. They include:

36: UT-Austin

107 (tie): Rice University

125 (tie): Texas A&M, College Station

260 (tie): UT-Dallas

388 (tie): Baylor University

388 (tie): University of Houston

421 (tie): UTSA

446 (tie): UT-Arlington

471 (tie): Texas Tech University

480 (tie): Southern Methodist University

611: University of North Texas

826 (tie): UT-Rio Grande Valley

880 (tie): UTEP

1249 (tie): Texas State University

UTSA is a public urban serving university specializing in health, cybersecurity, energy, sustainability, and human and social development. UTSA advances knowledge through research and discovery, teaching and learning, community engagement and public service.