Newsweek ranks the World's Top 100 Global Universities - Page 18

mochiex2 · 04-08-2008, 05:42 PM

University of British Columbia rocks...but then being Canadian totally undervalued. It should be around behind UCB but around UCLA level

UBC ranks in the top 10 universities in the world in creating spin-off companies, and has ranked ahead of MIT and Stanford in US patents filed and spin-offs formed per $100 million US.

Alumni: There are more than 240,000 UBC alumni in 120 countries, including Nobel laureate, economist Robert Mundell, former Canadian prime ministers Kim Campbell and John Turner, the late author and historian Pierre Berton, Man-in-Motion Rick Hansen and opera singers Ben Heppner and Judith Forst.
Economic impact: UBC’s total economic impact amounts to $6.3 billion in Metro Vancouver income and
over 39,700 jobs.

Research funding: In 2007, research funding totalled more than $485,600,000, mainly from federal and provincial governments.

$1-billion club: UBC is one of only 76 North American universities with an endowment worth more than $1-billion to support learning and research.

DunninLA · 04-08-2008, 06:48 PM

Well, this certainly was resurrected from the archives!

I only read through ten pages, but did not find the US rankings of graduate programs noted anywhere -- the data from 1994, which are to be updated and released this year sometime. The 1994 data are for 41 graduate areas of study (mostly Ph.D., some terminal masters) in both science and humanities, aggregated into five general areas of study. Therefore this study does not rate the quality of professional degree programs -- LLD, MD, or MBA. Anyway, the rankings from that study show:

1. UC Berkeley (by a wide margin)
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Princeton
5. Cornell
6. UC San Diego
7. Columbia
8. Yale
9. Chicago
10. Michigan
11. UCLA
12. Penn
13. Wisconsin
14. Washington
15. Texas

This ranking is not from the publication. It is from my compilation of the published ranking in each of the five general areas, taking each school's top four scores out of the five areas, with a slight bonus for offering programs in all five. For this reason MIT and Caltech are not included, but in their limited scope (excluding humanities completely or mostly) would be in the top 3.

It will be interesting to see how much has changed from the 1994 publication to the 2008 publication. Will Stanford overtake Berkeley?????

Not that it matters, really. How many of us plan to pursue a Ph.D. in all 41 areas of study? Or in all 5 general areas of study? Who would choose a Ph.D. "program" at a #1 ranked school over a more supportive committee chair at a #5 school?

indiejimmy · 04-08-2008, 09:15 PM

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What'd you expect? This is a ranking of "world" and "global" universities ... unless you interpret "world" in the same category as in "world series" or "world championship"...

haha so true...you gotta love america's cultural hegemony

mondaymornings · 05-13-2008, 04:41 AM

these rankings are excellent. in terms of global reputation and fame, they're very accurate. many people on this thread need to discard their undergraduate-centered, USN&W-biased perceptions when evaluating universities.

tetrisfan · 05-13-2008, 04:52 AM

I will never, ever be able to write a sentence with both the words 'rankings' and 'excellent'

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mondaymornings · 05-13-2008, 05:05 AM

you just did, tetrisfan. =P

Sheed30 · 05-13-2008, 05:13 AM

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these rankings are excellent. in terms of global reputation and fame, they're very accurate. many people on this thread need to discard their undergraduate-centered, USN&W-biased perceptions when evaluating universities.

the funny thing is that these ARE newsweek rankings....lol

mondaymornings · 05-13-2008, 05:47 AM

to Sheed30: USN&W = US news & world report, not newsweek.

i don't really understand what's funny. i know these are newsweek rankings. i hope you know that newsweek and US news & world report aren't the same thing....lol

tetrisfan · 05-13-2008, 07:12 AM

Aah, you know what I mean

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cnxf · 05-13-2008, 08:13 AM

where is uiuc man..

dconcerned · 05-13-2008, 11:14 AM

there are two ways to deal with these 'global universities' rankings by newsweek:

one:

1) these rankings, based on global perspectives, with methodology/creteria by non-us thes world rankings and sjtu, are therefore irrelevant to me.
2) the global community of higher education (grad schools) outside the us to me doesn't exist or at least it don't matter to me. i'm happy and satisfied with the uswr rankings as they're strictly and exclusively us schools and to me us schools represent the best higher education. even though most of the top 10 rankings by newsweek are us unis, some results here and there contradict my preconceived beliefs; therefore, i have every right to question the accuracy/professionalism in the survey. i accept most parts of the survey but still i want to attack, maybe unjustifiably, bits n pieces, here n there because schools i love are ranked below the schools i think are unmatched for. i don't see any reason why i have to check the purpose and methodology of the research, it's not my job. that's the course description of research 101 and again it don't matter either.
3) i know i know not everybody, not all educators particularly those from lower tier lacs, agree with the whole methodology of nswr rankings either, that some say it's creteria/factors used are biased or more favorable towards the elites n top private schools. that don't bother me.

or the other way:

1) the world has been changing rapidly over the past couple of decades and there's a strong need to view the higher education in a much more global perspective cause education now is more global than ever. we need global diversity, int'l faculty, int'l students to have more global perspectives in a more global learning environment. and the rankings survey like newsweek, or thes or sjtu for that matter, might give me something more to learn. okay i accept the fact that there are some flaws but the merits far outweight the drawbacks and i can learn more from this. after all it's not a bad idea to see how the global perspective can come about from this survey.
2) i'm happy, satisfied and proud that the us unis still come out on top overall, particularly the top 10-20, despite the fact that the survey is actually based on the rankings criteria/methodoly originally initiated by the non-us thes and sjtu. so i guess the survey results should be more neutral, impartial and unbiased. and that's a good thing.
3) actually it gives me a lot of insight. now i can see things i didn't quite see before. now i have to admit that ucb is more internationally renowned and respected than i first thought. and what's that again, ucsf? okay okay ucsf must be pretty good to be up there, though a bit surprise to me. and dartmouth and brown, yes i have to say it's hard to swallow but i'm beginning to see your point. and so on and so on.

Nogueira · 07-13-2008, 10:39 AM

these rankings are gimmicks. just look at them carefully. no offense, but seriously, dartmouth doesn't even make it to top 100. U-dub is better than hopkins, WUSTL, vanderbilt, carnegie mellon, UV, and emory? give me a break.

legend.dracula · 07-13-2008, 11:38 AM

lol UPenn dropped so much

Nogueira · 07-14-2008, 12:30 AM

this list shows how global/international the university is in relation to one another. it doesn't show academic standards at all.

CWalker · 07-14-2008, 12:53 AM

All rankings are gimmicks Nogueria. I'd argue that USNews is the least reliable of all rankings. Many posts on this thread have already stated that world rankings can't really be compared to USNews since they are typically research based. For research UW has some good programs. I don't find it all that hard to believe that it beat out UVA, Emory, etc...would I choose UW over Hopkins for undergrad? Probably not, but depending on my field I may for graduate school...and Dartmouth is a great school, but it is undergrad focused and hence (once again) I feel it justified being outside of the top 100.