Newsweek International Ranks Pitt 10th Among U.S. Public
Universities, 37th Among Universities Around the World

In a new exclusive Web ranking titled “The Complete List: The Top 100 Global Universities,” Newsweek International has listed the University of Pittsburgh 10th among U.S. public universities and 37th among all universities worldwide.

For its “Top 100 Global Universities” ranking, Newsweek International stated that it took 50 percent of its individual scores from equal parts of three measures for each university: the number of highly cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices.

Another 40 percent of each score, according to Newsweek, came equally from four measures: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member, and the faculty-to-student ratio.

The remaining 10 percent came from the number of volumes in a university’s library.

The institutions also included among the top 10 American public universities were four University of California campuses (Berkeley, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego), the University of Michigan, the University of Washington, the University of Texas, the University of Wisconsin, and the University of Minnesota. Pitt placed ahead of such other eminent American institutions of higher education as New York University, the University of North Carolina, the University of Maryland, the University of Illinois, and Brown University.

Pitt Maintains Rank Among Public Universities,
Rises in Other Categories In U.S. News Ratings

In the 2007 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” listings, which hit newsstands Aug. 21 in both magazine and guidebook versions, Pitt has maintained its rank of 19th among the top public national universities, while rising in other categories.

Pitt rose from 58th to 57th place in the Best National Universities category (tied with Boston University and Ohio State University). And in the category of Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs at engineering schools whose highest degree is a doctorate, Pitt’s School of Engineering advanced from 33rd to 30th among public institutions, rising from 57th to 53rd overall.

The Pitt Johnstown campus maintained its ranking of 3rd in the northern region in the Top Public Comprehensive Colleges category.