India, Oct. 22 -- UC Berkeley remains the world's top public and fourth best university overall in the latest global rankings by U.S. News & World Report.

As it did last year, Berkeley came in fourth among public and private universities, preceded by Harvard, MIT and Stanford, with the UK's University of Oxford rounding out the top five.

Columbia University came in sixth, the California Institute of Technology, seventh, followed by the University of Washington, the University of Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University finishing out the top 10.

Two other UC campuses made the top 20, with UCLA moving up to 13th place and UCSF staying in 15th place.

The U.S. News & World Report's 2021 rankings, issued this week, evaluated 1,500 universiti...