The University of Michigan continues to be ranked among the top higher education institutions in the world, according to the 2022 Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings released Nov. 16.
U-M was ranked as the third best public university in the United States, the same spot it held last year, and No. 18 overall worldwide, a drop of two places from the 2021 list.
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The other U.S. institutions to make the top 20 were the University of California, Berkeley (No. 6) and the University of California, Los Angeles (No. 16).
According to Times Higher Education, the World Reputation Rankings are created using the world’s largest invitation-only academic opinion survey of experienced, published scholars who offer their views on excellence in research and teaching within their disciplines and at institutions with which they are familiar.
The 2022 rankings were based on a survey conducted between November 2021 and February 2022 that received 29,606 responses from 159 countries.
In a different Times Higher Education global rankings list released in October, the 2023 World University Rankings, U-M was ranked the No. 23 university in the world and No. 14 in the United States. It was one of only three public universities in the U.S. to make the top 25 on that list, along with UC-Berkeley and UCLA.
The World University Rankings were based on 13 performance indicators that measured institutions across five areas: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.
