(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – University of Pennsylvania signage is seen in Philadelphia, May 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) TIME Magazine has recently ranked three colleges in Pennsylvania in a study among the world’s 100 best universities for academic performance, economic impact and global engagement. TIME Magazine and the firm Statista R performed this study on Wednesday. The University of Pennsylvania, which is the state’s only Ivy League school, appeared 10th on this list that sought to measure how well institutions of higher learning set up students for success after they have earned their diplomas. Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh was ranked 38th on that list, while Penn State University had the 81st spot.  The top four colleges on this list in that order were the University of Oxford, Yale University, Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The study leaned the most heavily on academic metrics, when it looked at how much the schools spend per student, faculty-to-student ratios and the number of top researchers and Nobel Prize laureates at each institution. The analysis also considered the alma maters of leading business executives and how many international students were enrolled in each school to capture economic impact and global engagement.