{"id":35559,"date":"2016-07-13T14:19:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-13T19:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=35559"},"modified":"2016-08-02T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T19:29:11","slug":"uwm-ranked-among-top-500-universities-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-ranked-among-top-500-universities-world\/","title":{"rendered":"UWM ranked among top 500 universities worldwide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee climbed 12 notches in a new ranking of the world\u2019s top 1,000 universities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cwur.org\/2016\/University-of-Wisconsin-Milwaukee.php\" target=\"_blank\">UWM ranked<\/a> 498<span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span>\u00a0among more than 25,000 institutions of higher learning worldwide, according to the 2016 ranking by the <a href=\"http:\/\/cwur.org\/about.php\" target=\"_blank\">Center for World University Rankings<\/a>. Last year, UWM was 510<span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>UWM ranked 160<span style=\"font-size: small\">th<\/span>\u00a0in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The rankings <a href=\"http:\/\/cwur.org\/about.php\" target=\"_blank\">attempt to measure<\/a> the quality of education along with \u201cthe prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research,\u201d without using surveys and information from the universities, according to the center\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee climbed 12 notches in a new ranking of the world\u2019s top 1,000 universities. 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