| how much longer do you want to drag on with all this? you raised the point comparing 120 top uk schools as opposed to 3000 something us colleges. that's why i had to bring to your attention, in case you forgot, that a couple of thousands or so are small schools, limited in funding (compared to big elite schools) like you said, smaller list of depts/programs, mainly serving state/local ppl, no real research facilities etc. etc. but don't get me wrong, many many of them are real fine schools, just serving different goals and ppl.
but you can't compare 120 uk schools, top internationally renowned, and a great majority of them are in top 500 world schools, with 3000 colleges in us. and draw a conclusion that nottingham being #14 is top 11% of uk top schools while top 50 us colleges would be only less than 1 percent; therefore us much much better.
if that's your logic, try comparing students of 10 thousands or so at beijing univ out of 1.3 billions in china, with those, say at harvard, more or less the same student pop. and draw a conclusion that top students attending bejing u or tsinghua u in china represent even a smaller fraction of a percentage, out of populationwise or number of schools; and therefore, beijing u students are even topper-than-top class of students compared to harvard or mit. that would be totally silly and idiotic.
now if you want to compare and try to prove that overall 120 top us colleges are better than 120 top uk schools, you needn't to bc i know it and i've said that already. again, the thread was never intended to do anything like that.
to tell you the truth, the list so far itself is not so much of a laundry list at all, it's the way replies going back and forth like this is making it like one. |