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August 31, 2006

Pitt ranks No. 37 globally

In a recently released web-based ranking feature titled “The Complete List: The Top 100 Global Universities,” Newsweek International has listed Pitt 10th among U.S. public universities and 37th among all universities worldwide.

For its top 100 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 and Humanities indices.

Another 40 percent of each score, according to Newsweek International, came equally from four measures: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member and the faculty-student ratio. The remaining 10 percent came from the number of volumes in a university’s libraries.

Harvard is No. 1 on the list. Eight of the top 10 schools are in the United States; Oxford and Cambridge round out the top 10. The next international institution is Tokyo University at No. 16.

The institutions included with Pitt 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.

Filed under: Feature,Volume 39 Issue 1

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