{"id":860093,"date":"2026-06-11T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860093\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:11:17","slug":"3-texas-universities-declared-best-in-the-world-per-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/860093\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Texas universities declared best in the world, per report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong\/>Three innovative Texas universities, including Dallas&#8217;<strong> UT Southwestern Medical Center<\/strong>, are soaring toward the top of the class worldwide. The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has ranked UT Southwestern at No. 69 in the world on its prestigious <a href=\"https:\/\/cwur.org\/2026.php\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Global 2000 list<\/a> for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>UT Southwestern also ranks as the No. 2 university in Texas and No. 34 in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, CWUR grades more than 21,000 universities around the world based on four factors without relying on surveys and university data submissions: education (25 percent), employability (25 percent), faculty (10 percent), and research (40 percent). For the 2026 edition, 81 million outcome-based data points were analyzed for the rankings, and the schools that placed at the top made the Global 2000 list.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how CWUR ranked UT Southwestern&#8217;s performance across the four categories:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 43 \u2013 Faculty rank<\/li>\n<li>No. 43 \u2013 Education rank<\/li>\n<li>No. 178 \u2013 Research rank<\/li>\n<li>Unranked in employability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A total of <a href=\"https:\/\/cwur.org\/media.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">313<\/a> universities in the U.S. made the cut, and only two other Texas universities earned spots among the top 100: <strong>The  University of Texas at Austin <\/strong>and <strong>Texas A&amp;M University<\/strong> in College Station. <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/innovation\/ut-austin-worlds-best-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UT Austin<\/a> ranked No. 1 statewide, No. 22 nationally, and No. 35 globally; and Texas A&amp;M ranked No. 3 statewide, No. 44 nationally, and No. 91 globally.<\/p>\n<p>In the past year, <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/innovation\/ut-austin-best-colleges-2026\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. News and World Report<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/innovation\/ut-austin-forbes-top-colleges\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Forbes<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/innovation\/southwestern-university-texas-college-rankings\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">WalletHub<\/a>, have praised the home of the Longhorns as one of the best universities in America. It&#8217;s a listmaker&#8217;s favorite in other <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/ut-austin-ranking-qs-world\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">global ranking reports<\/a>, including those that focus on <a href=\"https:\/\/austin.culturemap.com\/news\/innovation\/best-grad-schools-2026-ut\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">graduate schools<\/a>. UT has maintained its high-ranking status in these annual rankings even as university leaders face criticism from students for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/05\/20\/ut-system-vote-streamline-academic-program-cuts-mock-funeral-texas\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">closing and consolidating<\/a> several programs.<\/p>\n<p>These are the top 10 best universities in the world for 2026, according to CWUR:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>Harvard University<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/li>\n<li>Stanford University<\/li>\n<li>University of Cambridge<\/li>\n<li>University of Oxford<\/li>\n<li>Princeton University<\/li>\n<li>University of Pennsylvania<\/li>\n<li>Columbia University<\/li>\n<li>Yale University<\/li>\n<li>University of Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three innovative Texas universities, including Dallas&#8217; UT Southwestern Medical Center, are soaring toward the top of the class&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":860094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,12437,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,16386,27373],"class_list":["post-860093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-dallas","tag-rankings","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-ut-austin","tag-ut-southwestern"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116732119413022826","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=860093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/860093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=860093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=860093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=860093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}