Newsweek International Ranks Pitt 10th Among U.S. Public Universities, 37th Among the Top 100 Global Universities

PITTSBURGH—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.

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