U.S. News & World Report has released its first global ranking of colleges and universities.

Five hundred universities in 49 countries were evaluated based on 10 indicators that measure their academic research performance and their global reputations, according to the magazine.

Eight of the world’s 10 best universities are located in the U.S., according to rankings.

The following universities are listed in ascending order, with the top school receiving a perfect score of 100 points.

No. 10
Columbia University

77.3 points
New York

 

No. 9
University of Chicago

77.4 points
Chicago

 

No. 8   
University of California-Los Angeles

80.1 points
Los Angeles

 

No. 7
California Institute of Technology

80.3 points
Pasadena, Calif.

 

No. 6
University of Cambridge

83.3 points
Cambridge, U.K.

 

No. 5 
University of Oxford

83.6 points
Oxford, U.K.

 

No. 4
Stanford University

85.1 points
Stanford, Calif.

 

No. 3
University of California—Berkeley

88.0 points
Berkeley, Calif.

 

No. 2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

88.9 points
Cambridge, Mass.

 

No. 1  
Harvard University

100 points
Cambridge, Mass.

For the complete list of 500 universities click here.