US News & World Report
U.S. News & World Report has published annual rankings of American undergraduate and graduate institutions for decades. America’s Best Colleges is released in August; and America’s Best Graduate Schools is released in April. MIT’s placement from these ranking systems is displayed in the Tableau table below. In 2016, US. News & World Report began ranking universities from around the world. Best Global Universities is released in October.
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MIT’s relative position in Best Colleges and Best Graduate Schools Rankings:
MIT’s relative position in Best Global Universities Rankings:
| 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2025 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Value within North America | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| United States | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Indicator Rankings | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global score | 94.3 | 97.9 | 97.3 | 97.6 | 98.4 | 97.9 | 97.5 | 97.7 | 96.9 |
| Global research reputation | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Regional research reputation | 4 | 13 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Publications | 32 | 30 | 32 | 31 | 32 | 29 | 38 | 42 | 42 |
| Books | 33 | 31 | 27 | 36 | 34 | 29 | 22 | 34 | 38 |
| Conferences | 16 | 17 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 |
| Normalized citation impact | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| Total citations | 9 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 19 |
| Number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 16 |
| Percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 |
| International collaboration – relative to country | 32 | 28 | 29 | 31 | 47 | 50 | 61 | 62 | 84 |
| International collaboration | 363 | 317 | 354 | 379 | 405 | 444 | 562 | ||
| Number of highly cited papers that are among the top 1 percent most cited | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Percentage of highly cited papers that are among the top 1 percent most cited | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Subject Rankings | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | 22 | 31 | |||||||
| Arts and Humanities | 28 | 9 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 16 | 16 | 19 | 13 |
| Biology and Biochemistry | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems | 89 | 107 | 102 | 97 | 107 | ||||
| Cell Biology | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Chemical Engineering | 13 | 18 | 30 | 49 | |||||
| Chemistry | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 10 |
| Civil Engineering | 23 | 26 | 44 | 52 | 76 | ||||
| Clinical Medicine | 13 | 14 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 22 | 27 |
| Computer Science | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 |
| Condensed Matter Physics | 10 | 13 | 29 | ||||||
| Economics and Business | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Electrical and Electronic Engineering | 19 | 32 | 34 | 38 | 71 | ||||
| Endocrinology and Metabolism | 68 | 84 | 80 | 81 | |||||
| Energy and Fuels | 4 | 6 | 4 | 10 | |||||
| Engineering | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 |
| Environment/Ecology | 42 | 86 | 115 | 101 | 119 | 114 | 44 | 35 | 32 |
| Environmental Engineering | 169 | ||||||||
| Geosciences | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 12 | 19 | 25 |
| Green and Sustainable Science and Technology | 124 | ||||||||
| Immunology | 19 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Infectious Diseases | 71 | 82 | 107 | 82 | |||||
| Materials Science | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 8 |
| Mathematics | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 13 | 18 | 38 | 52 | 57 | ||||
| Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences | 30 | 34 | |||||||
| Microbiology | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| Molecular Biology and Genetics | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Nanoscience and Nanotechnology | 9 | 12 | 20 | 39 | |||||
| Neuroscience and Behavior | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Oncology | 8 | 7 | 16 | 15 | 13 | ||||
| Optics | 5 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Pharmacology and Toxicology | 7 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 16 | ||
| Physical Chemistry | 11 | 18 | 37 | ||||||
| Physics | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Polymer Science | 19 | 32 | 99 | ||||||
| Psychiatry/Psychology | 12 | 21 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 15 | 11 |
| Public, Environmental and Occupational Health | 129 | 115 | |||||||
| Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging | 29 | 30 | 70 | 52 | |||||
| Social Sciences and Public Health | 54 | 44 | 35 | 33 | 28 | 19 | 21 | 16 | 15 |
| Space Science | 26 | 24 | 25 | 19 | 18 | 13 | 9 | 8 | 5 |
| Water Resources | 70 | 76 |