UC Berkeley remains the No. 1 public university in the world

On a scale of zero to 100, Berkeley's global score this year is 88.7. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser) For the ninth straight year, UC Berkeley tops the list of the world's best public universities and remains the fourth-best university overall in U.S. News & World Report 's 2023 global universities rankings. As they did last year, Harvard, MIT and Stanford University have claimed the top three spots among private and public universities globally. Rounding out the top 10 are the United Kingdom's University of Oxford, the University of Washington, Columbia University, the U.K.'s University of Cambridge, the California Institute of Technology tied and Johns Hopkins University. After UC Berkeley, the world's top public universities include the University of Washington in sixth place overall, UCLA (14th) and UCSF (16th), among other schools. The U.S. News & World Report's 2022 best global universities rankings, issued Oct. 25 , evaluated roughly 2,000 universities around the world from more than 90 countries on academic research performance and global and regional reputation.