UWM ranked among top 500 universities worldwide

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee climbed 12 notches in a new ranking of the world’s top 1,000 universities.

UWM ranked 498th among more than 25,000 institutions of higher learning worldwide, according to the 2016 ranking by the Center for World University Rankings. Last year, UWM was 510th.

UWM ranked 160th in the United States.

The rankings attempt to measure the quality of education along with “the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research,” without using surveys and information from the universities, according to the center’s website.

The primary criteria are the percentage of graduates and faculty who have won major international awards, along with the percentage of alumni who have held CEO positions at major companies.

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