NMSU ranked among top 4 percent worldwide in survey

LAS CRUCES - According to the 2019-2020 Center for World University Rankings, New Mexico State University has been ranked in the top 4 percent of institutions of higher education worldwide.

With 20,000 degree-granting institutions of higher education worldwide evaluated, this year NMSU ranked 783rd overall and earned a national rank of 187th.

The Center for World University Rankings distributes the only global university performance tables that gauge both the quality of education and training of students along with prestige of faculty members and the quality of their research without the use of surveys and university data submissions.

Seven factors are used to base the Center for World University Rankings, including quality of education (25 percent), measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have won major international awards, prizes and medals relative to the university’s size.

Other factors include alumni employment (25 percent), measured by the number of a university’s alumni who have held CEO positions at the world’s top companies relative to the university’s size; quality of faculty (10 percent), measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes and medals; research output (10 percent), measured by the total number of research papers; high-quality publications (10 percent), measured by the number of research papers appearing in top-tier journals; influence (10 percent), measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly influential journals; and citations (10 percent), measured by the number of highly cited research papers.
For a complete list of the rankings, along with the methodology used, visit cwur.org/2019-2020.php.

Tiffany Acosta: 575-646-3929, tfrank@nmsu.edu