‘US News & World Report’ ranks UI among world’s best research universities

The University of Iowa is the 159th best research university in the world, with two disciplines ranked in the top 100, according to U.S. News & World Report’s latest ranking of top global universities.

The magazine ranked 1,250 institutions from 75 countries including the United States based on 13 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global and regional reputations. Iowa’s score puts the university among the top 15 percent of these leading global institutions. Overall, the UI tied with the University of Alabama–Birmingham, Eberhard Karls University in Germany, and Fudan University in China.

The UI research areas ranked in the top 100 are:

81. Psychiatry/Psychology
94. Neuroscience and Behavior

Additional rankings of UI research areas include:

107. Immunology
108. Clinical Medicine
128. Arts and Humanities
144. Social Sciences and Public Health
148. Microbiology
150. Pharmacology and Toxicology
155. Molecular Biology and Genetics
157. Geosciences
164. Mathematics
169. Physics
182. Economics and Business
206. Biology and Biochemistry
337. Engineering
344. Environment/Ecology
507. Chemistry

Now in its fifth year, this US News ranking evaluates the top 1,250 research universities from 75 countries around the world. In addition to the overall rankings, the 2019 data includes country, regional, and subject-specific rankings, such as engineering, economics and business, and computer science.

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to remove references to UI disciplines ranked in the top 10 percent, as it is unknown whether all 1,250 ranked institutions were represented in each discipline ranking.