Princeton University annually is named the top college in the country by the prestigious (and most recognized) U.S. News & World Report rankings.
The school does not do as well on the world stage — at least, that’s the take of the QS World University Rankings, which were released Tuesday.
To be clear, all of this is relative. Princeton was ranked No. 20 in the world — good for No. 8 among U.S. schools. And — as always noted — there are any number of college rankings.
Princeton was one of five New Jersey schools to receive a ranking:
- Rutgers University-New Brunswick: No. 264
- New Jersey Institute of Technology: No. 701-750
- Stevens Institute of Technology: No. 701-750
- Rutgers-Newark: No. 801-1000
The QS World Rankings are based on six factors, one of which — global academic reputation — counts for 40% of the final score. Here are the six categories:
- Academic reputation (40%)
- Employer reputation (10%)
- Faculty/student ratio (20%)
- Citations per faculty (20%)
- International faculty ratio (5%)
- International student ratio (5%)
With that, here is a look at the Top 10 schools:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- University of Oxford
- Stanford University
- University of Cambridge
- Harvard University
- California Institute of Technology
- Imperial College of London
- ETH – Zurich
- University College London
- University of Chicago
