Three Georgia schools are among the best 400 universities in the world, according to a new ranking released Wednesday.
Georgia Tech, ranked no. 84, is the leading school in Georgia, ahead of Emory at 114 and the University of Georgia at 385, according to the rankings compiled by U.S. News and World Report.
The best school in the world is the University of Cambridge, according to U.S. News. The rest of the top 10, which are all in the United States or U.K.: Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale, University of Oxford, Imperial College of London, University College London, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.
Other U.S. schools ranking high on the list include Stanford at 11, Cal Tech at 12, Princeton at 13, University of Michigan at 14, Cornell at 15, Johns Hopkins at 16, Duke at 19, University of California at 21 and Northwestern at 24.
Other notable U.S. schools are UCLA at 34, University of North Carolina at 55, University of Texas at 76, Ohio State at 111, University of Virginia at 126, Vanderbilt at 131 and the University of Florida at 161.
The highest ranked schools outside the U.S. or U.K. are McGill University in Canada, 17; the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 18; University of Hong Kong, 22; University of Toronto, 23; and University of Tokyo, 25.
U.S. News' rankings are based on the QS World University Rankings, which relies heavily on "research performance measured through citations per faculty member," U.S. News said.
The rankings do not use student and school-specific data -- such as admission test scores, graduation rates and retention rates -- that are used in other rankings because such data can't be compared internationally.
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