Global ranking of Universities

GLOBAL RANKING OF UNIVERSITIES 2016:------------

The 2nd Annual World Top 20 Project’s Global Universities Rankings were produced to measure the quality of education and training for students 18 to 25 year olds, as well as, the university’s economic and social impact in promoting their country’s sustainable development.

500 Universities were chosen, that meet NJ MED’s World Top 20 project objectives to: 1) improve nation’s attainment and achievement levels towards establishing a knowledge base workforce for the 21st century, and 2) promote social skills that positively affect community development.

The Universities were then ranked in eight global regions (Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Oceania, North America, and South America). The 20 universities with the highest overall scores were selected for the World Top 20 rankings.

The World Top 20 Universities Rankings for 2016 are:

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The Global Regions Rankings of the top 5 Universities are:

Africa

University of Cape Town – South Africa
University of the Witwatersrand – South Africa
Stellenbosch University – South Africa
University of KwaZulu-Natal – South Africa
University of Pretoria – South Africa
Asia

The University of Tokyo, Japan
Kyoto University – Japan
National University of Singapore, Singapore
The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Seoul National University, South Korea
Caribbean

University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez – Puerto Rico
Universidad de Puerto Rico – Puerto Rico
University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras – Puerto Rico
University of the West Indies – Jamaica
Universidad de la Habana – Cuba
Central America

Universidad de Costa Rico – Costa Rico
Universidad Nacional- Costa Rico
Universidad Rafael Landívar – Guatemala
Universidad de El Salvador – El Salvador
Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas – El Salvador
Europe

University of Cambridge, UK
University of Oxford, UK
Imperial College London, UK
ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland
UCL (University College London), UK


Oceania

1.  The University of Melbourne – Australia
2.  The University of Sydney – Australia
3.  The Australian National University – Australia
4.  The University of Queensland – Australia
5.  The University of New South Wales – Australia

North America

Harvard University, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Stanford University, USA
California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
University of California, Berkeley (UCB), USA
South America

Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo – Brazil
Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Brazil
Universidad de Buenos Aires – Argentina
Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Brazil
Pontificia Universidad Catoilca de Chile
Please feel free to comment on our selections and make a recommendation if you are or have attended any of these universities.

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How Universities Are Ranked – The Methodology

Two primary level indicators – Economics and Social Affairs, were used to rank the universities in categories. Then 7 criteria – Innovation; Research; Publications; Facilities; Teaching; Employability; and Social Responsibility, were used to measure each university’s strengthens within the two primary indicators.

Below is the methodology indicator’s criteria scoring scale system:

Economic Indicators

Innovation (60%): Innovation, the output of the universities activities and findings to economy, society and culture, in agriculture, healthcare, financial and communication services, and its help in sustaining innovations (which supplant older products with revolutionary and more superior ones) and efficiency designs (which permit companies to build and sell established products for less) help companies serve their existing customers better, that drives economic growth.
Research (30%): This category criteria looks, a