U.S. News Media Group today released the third annual edition of the World's Best Universities rankings. The 2010 World's Best rankings include colleges and universities across the globe. They conducted this ranking because there seems to be a growing interest of students that want to attend institutions abroad. I think it's a great resource for prospective students. It also reminds students that there are many outstanding universities outside the U.S. that they may have not even thought about.
The way U.S. News ranked the world's institutions is different from the U.S. News Best College rankings, the World's Best Universities rates universities on factors such as the proportion of international faculty and the proportion of international students.
This helps students compare institutions and gives them useful information to compare the best schools worldwide. It is definitely useful for not only students, but also employers to have a comparison of the top universities. For an outstanding education there is always the option of studying internationally.
To determine the 2010 rankings, six distinct indicators of excellence were evaluated, including:
1. Academic Peer Review
2. Employer Review
3. Student-to-Faculty Ratio
4. Proportion of International Faculty
5. Proportion of International Students
6. and Citations per Faculty Member.
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