![BROWN UNIVERSITY and the University of Massachusetts are among the top 200 universities in the world, according to a survey by Times Higher Education magazine. BROWN UNIVERSITY and the University of Massachusetts are among the top 200 universities in the world, according to a survey by Times Higher Education magazine.](https://assets.pbn.com/uploads/2014/10/1412270156_688d-696x759.jpg)
PROVIDENCE – Brown University and the University of Massachusetts have been named among the world’s top 200 universities, according to Times Higher Education’s annual survey.
The magazine’s survey, released Wednesday afternoon, ranked Brown No. 54, two spots lower than last year, and UMass at No. 91, which is 41 places higher than its rank last year.
The Times Higher Education website states that Brown does not give grades with pluses or minuses, and has about 8,300 students with nearly 100 programs of study.
UMass’ famous former students are noted, including Frank Black, who, while in the Pixies wrote a song called “UMass.” The UMass system has approximately 63,000 students.
UMass officials were pleased that the five-campus university placed in the top 100 in the world, and that it also ranked 19th out of all public universities in the United States, and first in New England. Among private and public universities, it ranked seventh in New England, according to the university.
The rankings examine a university’s strengths against all its core missions: teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. About 700 universities are pre-selected for inclusion in the survey using public research excellence data before further data is collected and analyzed.
“This world ranking reflects the hard work of staff, faculty and students, the high-quality teaching on all five UMass campuses and the university’s leading edge research,” UMass President Robert L. Caret said in a statement.
Times Higher Education rankings editor Phil Baty said that universities must meet high standards and that climbing 41 places since last year’s rankings is a significant achievement for the UMass system.
“This accomplishment is perhaps made more impressive by the fact that the University of Massachusetts has risen further up the table this year against a backdrop of falls for many of the USA’s universities, and against mounting competition from rising stars in East Asia which have been enjoying strong financial support,” he said.
Said Caret, “We work to continually improve the quality and value of a UMass education, and it is gratifying to have our success acknowledged not only nationally, but also on the world stage.”
The top 10 in the rankings were California Institute of Technology, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Stanford University, University of Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, University of California Berkeley, Imperial College London and Yale University.
Full results of the annual rankings are available HERE.