US News Global Universities Ranking 2018

UZH has moved up 11 places in this year’s international university ranking by US News & World Report, coming in at an excellent position of 59th in the world.

The US News & World Report issues the most widely referenced university ranking in the United States and is the main source of information in the US for ambitious students and researchers. This year marks the fourth time the rankings have included universities throughout the world.

The ranking again shows indicators rating an entire institution as well as in individual subject areas. Both ranking types are based on the same 13 indicators, which are weighted differently depending on the subject area. In addition to evaluating the global and regional reputation of a university, bibliometric indicators and assessments of education achievements are analyzed in the rankings.

Ranking indicator Weighting
Global research reputation 12.5%
Regional research reputation 12.5%
Publications 10%
Books 2.5%
Conferences 2.5%
Normalized citation impact 10%
Total citations 7.5%
Number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited 12.5%
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited 10%
International collaboration 5%
Percentage of total publications with international collaboration * 5%
Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1 percent most cited in their respective field 5%
Percentage of total publications that are among the top 1 percent most highly cited papers 5%

* This indicator was added this year for the first time. 

Rankings of Institutions: In the Top 100 in 10 of 13 Indicators

UZH achieved an excellent overall rank of 59 worldwide, and 15th within Europe. Only two Swiss higher education institutions achieved higher rankings (ETH Zurich at 25, and EPFL at 36), and UZH is Switzerland’s best-ranked comprehensive university, ahead of the University of Geneva, which was ranked 88th.  The welcome results are mainly due to excellent performance – when compared globally – in the following indicators:

2017 Global Rank Indicator
21 Regional research reputation
43 Percentage of total publications with international collaboration
56 Number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited
57 Percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited
60 Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1 percent most cited in their respective field
64 Total citations
73 Percentage of highly cited papers that are among the top 1 percent most cited in their respective field
75 Normalized citation impact
76 Publications
98 Global research reputation

Overall, UZH numbers among the 100 best universities worldwide in 10 of 13 indicators. That these indicators focus largely on actual achievements in research rather than reputation underline the high quality of scholarship at UZH.

Subject Rankings: In the Top 100 in 16 of 18 Subject Areas

In the rankings of individual subjects, UZH was rated among the 100 best universities worldwide in 16 of 18 subject areas.

2017 Rank Subject Area
18 Immunology
22 Biology and Biochemistry
30 Neuroscience and Behavior
32 Plant and Animal Science
44 Environment/Ecology
51 Psychiatry/Psychology
57 Clinical Medicine
65 Economics and Business
61 Geosciences
66 Microbiology
64 Physics
65 Molecular Biology and Genetics
96 Space Science

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