ASU's undergraduate program is ranked 65th for public universities and 132nd of 280 " national universities " by the 2012 US News and World Report ranking of US colleges and universities ; and, for the fourth year in a row, ASU was ranked in the top 10 for " Up and Coming " universities in the US, for substantial improvements to academics and facilities.

Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities, a ranking with an emphasis on bibliometric data and scientific research, ranked Caltech 6th in the world and 5th in the U. S. for 2011.

According to the U. S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools 2011 ranking, " California Institute of Technology headlines the new rankings, with top billing in three categories: chemistry, earth sciences and physics.

The city is listed by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network ( GaWC ) as a global city, with a ranking of " Alpha -", placing Dublin among the top 30 cities in the world.

In the Second World War, Alexander acted as a high ranking commander in North Africa and Italy.

The 2009 U. S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs puts Albers in the top 30 % of AACSB accredited schools and one of the top 20 private business schools in the U. S. Albers's part-time MBA program has been recognized as one of the top 50 in the nation, according to the latest issue of U. S. News & World Reports “ America's Best Graduate Schools 2009 .” The Executive Leadership Program was ranked by CRO Corporate Responsibility Officer magazine among the top 10 executive training programs in corporate responsibility.

The university is rated as the best university in the Netherlands by both the Times Higher Education World University Ranking 2011 and the Shanghai Ranking of World Universities 2012, and ranked as the 12th best European university and the 68th best university of the world by the former ranking and 12th best European university and 53th best of the world by the latter.

This ranking was reinforced when New Yorker Magazine also claimed that Snow's BBQ was " The Best Texas BBQ in the World ".

In the 1990s and into the 2000s ( decade ), Carnegie Mellon solidified its status among elite American universities, consistently ranking in the top 25 in US News and World Report rankings, and in the top 43-50 universities worldwide.

Prince was also listed in TIME magazine's 2010 annual ranking of the " 100 Most Influential People in the World ".

In 2008 Loveless Academic Magnet Program ( LAMP ) High School was named No. 20 on U. S. News & World Report's Gold Medal List, a nationwide ranking, bringing national attention to the city.

The World Health Organization, in its World Health Report 2000, provided a ranking of health systems around the world according to criteria of the overall level and distribution of health in the populations, and the responsiveness and fair financing of health care services.

In the 2013 U. S. News and World Report ranking of public universities, Louisiana Tech is listed 115th, and LA Tech is ranked in the " Top Tier " of national universities at 199th.

These rankings appeared in the THES-QS World University Rankings, a widely acknowledged international ranking of universities.

In addition, RIT was listed by U. S. News & World Report as one of only 12 colleges nationally recognized for excellence in the internships / co-ops category and has secured this ranking, which is based on nominations from college presidents, chief academic officers and deans, for four years in a row since U. S. News began the category in 2002.

Ranked 47th globally by QS World University Rankings in 2012, a jump of 11 places from its 2011 ranking, NTU is the fastest-rising university in the QS global top 50, and 4th in the world among young elite universities, according to QS Top 50 Under 50.

In 2012, it was the fastest-rising university in the top 50 of the 2012 QS World University Rankings as it moved up 11 places from its 2011 ranking, having previously risen 16 places in 2010.

but never reached the World No. 1 ranking.

In recent years it has been rated as one of the world's top 100 universities by the Times Higher Education Table, while the 2011 QS World University Rankings ranked the university 75th overall in the world, and Webometrics Ranking of World Universities ranking Southampton 32nd in the world.

In addition, Millis High School has been awarded with Silver Medal status is U. S. News & World Report's online ranking of U. S. highschools.

In 2010, Millis earned Silver Medal status as one of America's Best High Schools in U. S. News & World Report's latest ranking of public high schools.

Currently, overnight viewers receive 25 minute editions of BBC News every hour, and on weekdays 0100-0200 receive Newsday, live from Singapore and from London 0200-0530 BBC World News.

Currently, the Department of Television and Radio administers an MS in Media Studies, and hosts the Center for the Study of World Television.

Currently, the largest professional wrestling company worldwide is the United States-based World Wrestling Entertainment ( WWE ), which bought over many smaller regional companies in the late twentieth century, as well as its primary competitors in early 2001, World Championship Wrestling ( WCW ) and Extreme Championship Wrestling ( ECW ).

Currently, the World Wide Web is based mainly on documents written in Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML ), a markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects such as images and interactive forms.

Currently, GT2 is defunct in the FIA, and only runs in Le Mans Series / ALMS ; however, the FIA has also announced that GT2 cars will be able to compete in the FIA GT1 World Championship in 2012 in a World Class along with GT3 cars.

Currently, the World Bank believes that, at most, rates of 20 % can be allowed by developing nations ; but Ha-Joon Chang believes higher levels may be justified because the productivity gap between developing and developed nations is much higher than the productivity gap which industrial countries faced.

Currently, there are dozens of storytelling festivals and hundreds of professional storytellers around the world, and an international celebration of the art on World Storytelling Day.

Currently NTU is ranked 47th globally by the QS World University Rankings, placing it in the top 1 % of universities globally.

Currently, the Cruise Capital of the World is the Port of Miami, Florida, closely followed behind by Port Everglades, Florida and the Port of San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Currently, the International Bodyboarding Association ( IBA ) World Tour is the governing tour determining bodyboarding's world champion.

Currently, Nightly News is the most watched newscast in the United States, with an average of 9. 3 million viewers, just over a million more than its nearest rival, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer.

Currently, in Olympic or World Championships competition, the meet is divided into several sessions which occur on different days: team qualifying, team finals, all-around finals and event finals.

Currently, the Shitō-ryū International Karate-dō Kai ( also known as Seito Shitō-ryū ) lists Kenzō Mabuni as the second Sōke of Shitō-ryū, while the World Shitō-ryū Karate-dō Federation ( also known as Shitō-kai Shitō-ryū ) lists Kenei Mabuni.

Currently, the Baptist World Alliance brings together 210 Baptist groups representing over 47 million baptized believers in more than 200 countries.

" Currently, 15 of the 49 players in training for the World Cup are non-white.

Currently operating under the aegis of the World Security Institute, it is composed of academics and high-ranking retired U. S. military officers who conduct critical analyses of U. S. defense and security policy.

Currently ranked World / European number 1, Ashman has 16 gold, 10 silver and 2 bronze medals from the British, European and World Championships, he has been capped 10 times for the England team, with a record of 7 wins and 3 losses.

Currently, a multidrug treatment ( MDT ) is recommended by the World Health Organization, including dapsone, rifampicin and clofazimine.

Currently, Miss Universe Puerto Rico, Miss Mundo de Puerto Rico and Miss Earth Puerto Rico are the official national preliminaries to the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss Earth international pageants.

Currently, there are memorials to both camps in Potulice ; they have helped to enable a German-Polish discussion on historical perception of World War II.

Currently there are only a small number of racing based MMOGs, including Kart Rider, Upshift StrikeRacer, Test Drive Unlimited, Project Torque, Drift City, Race or Die ( iPhone ) and Need for Speed: World.