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Offline Krusher

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« on: November 04, 2004, 07:03:05 AM »
The top 10 universities in the World University Rankings are:

1 Harvard University US

2 California University Berkeley US

3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US

4 California Institute of Technology US

5 Oxford University UK

6 Cambridge University UK

7 Stanford University US

8 Yale University US

9 Princeton University US

10 ETH Zurich Switzerland


Things I noticed.....

Bush has degrees from two of them.

Canada, France, and Norway did not make the top 10 list.

Austrailia dominates Asia

The top 200 universities are to be found in 29 countries, with the United States, the UK, Germany and Australia leading.

The US has more than the other four combined.
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Offline ra

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« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2004, 07:13:37 AM »
Toga! Toga!
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Re: University ranking
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2004, 07:37:25 AM »
source ?

FYI the top "universities" in France are not university ...
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Offline WMLute

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« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2004, 07:39:14 AM »
odd. my univ. was ranked 28th. a bit surprised by a few in the top 20.

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/ranking.htm for straffo. here is a list.

was looking at the top 100 euro. on the list.  Straffo help me here.  My sister attended the Univ. o' Paris at the Sorbonne.  WHICH one is that on the list?   They have them listed as Univ Paris 06 or Univ Paris 11.  How can I tell which one?
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« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2004, 07:49:37 AM »
Kind of a bogus ranking system.  It doesn't even list the smaller universities in the USA really, which frankly besides the Ivy League are by far the best ones.  Ohio State?  lmao what a bad school.
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« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2004, 07:55:28 AM »
Sorbonne is none of P06 or P11  it's Paris 1 ;)

IMO the ranking is a bit controvertial ... and not covering the whole spectrum of studies possible.

For example I've seen no university specialized in literature ranked
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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2004, 08:02:44 AM »
Top four are blue states, imagine that
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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2004, 08:17:35 AM »
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Originally posted by Sixpence
Top four are blue states, imagine that

Yeah, but in a red country.
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« Reply #8 on: November 04, 2004, 08:19:16 AM »
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Yeah, but in a red country.


Russia?
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« Reply #9 on: November 04, 2004, 12:40:11 PM »
UF at 67?

They put the University of Florida at 67?!   That's an outrage!  Just because our football team is in the crapper is no reason to rank us below those California schools!
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« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2004, 12:47:26 PM »
Wisconsin is 18 and deservedly so.

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« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2004, 12:49:30 PM »
mushroom mushroom.
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« Reply #12 on: November 04, 2004, 01:02:42 PM »
All of those US schools except Berkely and MIT aren't as good anymore and I'm surprised they are even up there.
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« Reply #13 on: November 04, 2004, 01:22:44 PM »
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Originally posted by AKS\/\/ulfe
mushroom mushroom.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH hahahahahahahahaha

I'd forgotten all about that.

Anyhow, the methodolgy seems to favor big schools. Which really isn't a very good idea. They should have taken all of the numbers as a ratio of total students, not just the "size" column.

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« Reply #14 on: November 04, 2004, 01:32:41 PM »
The true value of a diploma for most people is how nice it looks hanging on the wall or in a resume, which means that a recognizable name like Ohio State is indeed "better" than some good-but-unheard of local university.

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