UC San Diego has been ranked 16th best university in the world by U.S. News and World Report, slightly behind Yale University and beating out such schools as Duke and Cornell universities.

The publication released its national rankings for 2018 Tuesday, and placed Harvard University on top, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and the University of Oxford.

Last year, UC San Diego was ranked 15th on the list of top schools worldwide for 2017. It ranked 19th in 2016 and 18th in 2015.

“UC San Diego is proud to receive this recognition and to have the academic achievements of our faculty and students commended by U.S News and World Report,” said Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. “As a top-ranked public research university, UC San Diego advances the frontiers of knowledge to find innovative, non-conventional solutions to global challenges and make the world a better place.”


In its national rankings released in September, U.S. News and World Report named UC San Diego 9th best public school and 42nd best among all universities.

In the newly released ranking, which uses a different methodology, UC San Diego was 5th among public schools in the United States.

U.S. News and World Report has ranked U.S.universities since 1983, and this is the fourth year it has released a global ranking.

The global ranking includes the top 1,250 institutions in 74 countries, up from the top 1,000 in 65 countries ranked last year.


The U.S. led the ranking with 221 universities making the overall list, followed by China with 136 schools.

Japan had 76 institutions on the list, the United Kingdom had 73 and Germany had 58.

To create the international ranking, the publication included schools ranked by through a Clarivate Analytics’ global reputation survey, the number of papers and books published, the number of conferences held and the impact on its research.

The complete list of universities included in this year’s ranking can be found at https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities.


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