BUSM #30, BUSPH #25 in Inaugural U.S. News Best Global Universities Rankings
U.S. News released its latest rankings tool, Best Global Universities, today and Boston University is listed 37.
The new rankings offer the most comprehensive assessment of research universities worldwide as well as by region and country. As an interesting comparison, U.S. News ranks BUSM 32nd, BUSPH 11th and BU 42nd in the U.S. on its list of Best U.S. Graduate Schools and National Universities, respectively. Thus both BUSM and BU are ranked higher globally (30th and 37th respectively), than they are ranked in the U.S. (32nd and 42nd).
As per the table below, the U.S. News Global rankings lists BUSM 20th in the US compared to 32nd in the U.S. in the U.S. News National rankings.
|
Global rank |
U.S. rank in Global rankings |
U.S. rank in Natl rankings |
|
| BU |
37 |
28 |
42 |
| BUSM |
30 |
20 |
32 |
| BUSPH |
25 |
16 |
11 |
The rankings also feature the top 100 global universities in 21 subject areas, including fields such as economics and business, engineering, computer science and clinical medicine. In these subject areas, BU ranks in the following 10 categories:
- #25 in social sciences/public health
- #30 in clinical medicine
- #30 in physics
- #33 in molecular biology/genetics
- #45 in psychiatry/psychology
- #46 in neuroscience and behavior
- #54 in biology and biochemistry
- #55 in economics and business
- #55 in immunology
- #76 in environment/energy
For a complete list of the rankings, visit http://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities