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Best Global Universities Rankings, made by US News & World Report, has listed 1678 universities, out of which Transilvania University of Brașov ranks 328^th in Europe, and 792^th globally. Only two universities in Romania occupy higher positions than UNITBV, i.e. West University of Timisoara, ranking 241^st in Europe and 557^th worldwide, and Babes Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca, holding 259^th position in Europe and 595^th globally. Other Romanian universities ranked on top positions are the Polytechnic University of Bucharest (330^th in Europe and 801^st globally), University of Bucharest (330^th in Europe and 959^th worldwide) and the University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila in Bucharest (403^rd in Europe and 1022^nd globally).

The first places in the global ranking are occupied by Harvard, MIT, Stanford University and the University of California - Berkeley, all in the United States, followed by Oxford in the United Kingdom. At European level, the top is dominated by Great Britain, the best universities being Oxford, Cambridge, University College London, Imperial College London, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, University of Edinburgh, King's College London, University of Copenhagen, University of Amsterdam and the Sorbonne University.

The performance indicators of Best Global Universities Rankings are: global research reputation (12.5%), regional research reputation (12.5%), number of publications (10%), number of books (2.5%), number of conferences (2.5%), nominalized citation impact ( 10%), total number of citations (7.5%), number of publications among the 10% most cited (12.5%), publications among the 10% most cited  (10%), international collaboration relative to country (5%), publications with international collaboration of the institution (5%), number of highly cited papers among the top 1% most cited in their field (5%), percentage of total publications among the top 1% most highly cited papers (5%).