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UW-Madison ranks once again among the top 50 universities in the world and ranks among the top 25 US universities, according to the ranking released Wednesday.
Times Higher Education, a London-based weekly, has published its annual ranking of global universities, examining 1,258 institutions and judging schools on teaching, research, citations (research influence), international perspectives and industrial revenues.
UW-Madison is ranked 43rd in the world for the second year in a row and 23rd in the United States for the third year in a row.
The state's flagship university earned 89.9 out of 100 in citations, 71 out of 100 in research and 70.3 out of 100 in teaching.
Of the top 10 universities in the world, seven came from the United States. Oxford and Cambridge ranked in the top 10, in the UK, at Stanford, MIT, Cal Tech, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Imperial College London, and London. University of Chicago.
The ten best conference schools were well represented in the world rankings, with 10 of the 14 universities ranking in the top 100.
Michigan was the 20th, followed by Northwest (25), Wisconsin (43), Illinois (50), Purdue (64), Minnesota, and Ohio State (71). , Penn State (81), Maryland (82) and Michigan State (93).
The top ten schools below 100 include Indiana (146), Rutgers (176), Iowa (at 201 to 250) and Nebraska (at 351 to 400).
How did the strongest college football schools behave? Not very well.
Alabama, ranked No. 1 in the Associated Press poll in Georgia ranked No. 2, and Oklahoma ranked No. 6, were all at the 401-500 level of the world's best universities.
No. 5 Louisiana State was in the 501-600 level and the No. 10 Auburn was in the 601-800 level.
No. 3 Clemson was not in the rankings, but he was 618th in the latest world ranking of American universities.
The top 10 AP Voting Schools are: Ohio State No. 4, Stanford No. 7, No. 8 Notre Dame (ranked 173 in the School Rankings) and No. 9 Penn State.
