Rankings
The U.S. News and World Report's 2011 "America's Best Colleges" ranked Yeshiva University as the 45th best national University. In 2009 "America's Best Colleges" ranked Yeshiva University as the 50th best national university rising from the 2008 rank of 52nd. YU was also ranked 41st "Best Value" Colleges, and 5th in percentage of students studying abroad (90% of the class of 2007). Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein School of Medicine was ranked 41st in the nation.
The Washington Monthly 2007 College Rankings placed Yeshiva University 94th nationally. In a similar list, The Center for Measuring University Performance found Yeshiva University 45th nationally among the Top American Research Universities.
YU has also received worldwide recognition. The Times Higher Education Supplement of the UK ranked it as 68th in the world in 2011, a substantial jump from the 172nd top world university ranking it received in 2006 and the 254th ranking the school received in 2005. According to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, the university is ranked in the 151–200 category among world universities and 76–98 among universities in the Americas.
The university's national research impact has also been evaluated. The university's rank of research impact in Biology & Biochemistry placed 5th in the US by Thomson Reuters, surpassing Washington University, Stanford, Duke, and UCSF.
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