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Baylor ranks among the top 20% of universities in the world, according to two recent rankings.<\/p>\n
Yes, you read that right. In the first ranking, U.S. News<\/em> — perhaps best known for its annual evaluation of America’s top colleges and universities — looked around the globe at more than 2,000 universities, and placed Baylor among the top 20% on the planet<\/a>.<\/p>\n In this study, U.S. News<\/em> compared institutions worldwide based on their academic research and international reputation. And while Baylor remains focused on students closer to home (just 3% of undergrads last year came from outside the U.S.), it’s nice to know word is spreading far and wide about what’s happening here in Waco.<\/p>\n Baylor also excels in another recent worldwide ranking — this one, of the universities commanding the most global attention<\/a>. Once again, BU stands out among the top 20% of universities in the world, based on news mentions, public interest, and online metrics analyzed by\u00a0American Caldwell (a leading higher ed market research firm).<\/p>\n If you like these sorts of stats, you can also add a host of others for Baylor: No. 4 nationally for First-Year Experience<\/a>, top 20% of national universities<\/a>, top 10 nationally in Fulbright qualifiers<\/a>, top 75 colleges for best leaders<\/a>… And the list goes on<\/a>.<\/p>\n Of course, rankings don’t tell the whole story about Baylor — you can’t put a number on Baylor’s Christian faith, after all — but since so many people use them for comparing schools, it’s nice to see Baylor well-recognized, both at home and around the world.<\/p>\n Sic \u2019em, Bears!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Baylor ranks among the top 20% of universities in the world, according to two recent rankings. Yes, you read that right. In the first ranking, U.S. News — perhaps best known for its annual evaluation of America’s top colleges and universities — looked around the globe at more than 2,000 universities, and placed Baylor among […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25241"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25272,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25241\/revisions\/25272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}