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The 4th 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.

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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.

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Ranking 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.

The Scoring Point System:

To calculate each university’s score, two tables were created for both indicators – Economic and Social Affairs-will their criteria base score being tallied from a scale set of five values:  5-Excellent,  4- Very Good, 3-Good, 2-Average and 1-Poor.

 

Data Collection:

Statistical data were collected from Institutions database and educational publications for use in the criteria value scores.

The results from each universities score were then matched with the results from the world’s top 4 international higher education survey rankings – US News & World Report (Best Global Universities), The Times Higher Education (World Reputation Rankings), QS Top Universities (World University Rankings), and Center for World University Rankings, to select this year’s final 20 universities.

The 20 universities with the highest overall scores were selected for the World Top 20 rankings.

 

The World Top 20 Universities Rankings for 2018

Rank#1:: Harvard University, USA
Rank#2:: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA
Rank#3:: Stanford University, USA
Rank#4:: University of Cambridge, UK
Rank#5:: University of Oxford, UK
Rank#6:: Princeton University, USA
Rank#7:: California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA
Rank#8:: University of California, Berkeley, USA
Rank#9:: University of Chicago, USA
Rank#10:: Columbia University, USA
Rank#11:: Yale University, USA
Rank#12:: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA 
Rank#13:: John Hopkins University, USA
Rank#14:: UCL (University College London), UK
Rank#15:: Cornell University, USA
Rank#16:: Imperial College London, UK
Rank#17:: The University of Tokyo, Japan
Rank#18:: University of Pennsylvania, USA
Rank#19:: ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, SWZ
Rank#20:: Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU), Singapore

 

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The Universities were then ranked in eight global regions: Africa, Asia, Caribbean, Central America, Europe, Oceania, North America, and South America.

 

The 2018 Global Regional Rankings of the Top 5 Universities are:

 

1. Africa

University of Cape Town – South Africa

University of the Witwatersrand – South Africa

Stellenbosch University – South Africa

University of KwaZulu-Natal – South Africa

Cairo University – Egypt

 

2. Asia

The University of Tokyo, Japan

Nanyang Technological University of Singapore (NTU)

National University of Singapore, Singapore

Tsinghua University -China

Peking University – China

 

3. Caribbean

Universidad de la Habana – Cuba

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

 

4. Central America

Universidad de Costa Rica – Costa Rica

Universidad Nacional- Costa Rica

Universidad Latinoamericana de Ciencia y Tecnologia, Costa Rica   

Universidad Rafael Landívar – Guatemala

Universidad de El Salvador – El Salvador

 

5. Europe

University of Cambridge, UK

University of Oxford, UK

UCL (University College London), UK

Imperial College London, UK

ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland

 

6. Oceania

 The University of Melbourne – Australia
 The University of Sydney – Australia
 The Australian National University – Australia
 The University of Queensland – Australia
The University of New South Wales – Australia

 

7. North America

Harvard University, USA

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

Stanford University, USA

Princeton University, USA

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA

 

8. South America

Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo – Brazil

Universidad Federal do Rio de Janeiro – Brazil

Universidad de Buenos Aires – Argentina

Pontificia Universidad Catoilca de Chile

Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Brazil

 

For more details on the ranking procedure, top 20 universities & Eight Global region university profiles and other related information please click on the "Top University Ranks 2018" button below.