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Old 08-15-2006, 12:41 PM   #1
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Newsweek ranks the World's Top 100 Global Universities

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3037881/site/newsweek/

For whatever it's worth, following are Newsweek's top 20 most global universities:

1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Yale University
4. California Institute of Technology
5. University of California at Berkeley
6. University of Cambridge
7. Massachusetts Institute Technology
8. Oxford University
9. University of California at San Francisco
10. Columbia University
11. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
12. University of California at Los Angeles
13. University of Pennsylvania
14. Duke University
15. Princeton Universitty
16. Tokyo University
17. Imperial College London
18. University of Toronto
19. Cornell University
20. University of Chicago

Ranking Methodology:
"We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes)."
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Old 08-15-2006, 12:43 PM   #2
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Wow, Newsweek is just rolling out the bs this week, isn’t it.

Must sell more than US News! Must sell more than US News!
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Old 08-15-2006, 12:47 PM   #3
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The methodology suggests this has more to do with academic publishing and research than education received. UCSF always makes out like a bandit with such criteria...Princeton falls way behind.
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Old 08-15-2006, 01:05 PM   #4
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Hey, don't knock it! The local universities here were so proud they cracked the top 100...finally.

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Must sell more than US News!
Yup, that's the slogan. What'd you expect when you have combine a magazine with Kaplan.
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:08 PM   #5
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what a joke....we need to eliminate this kinda stuff
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:17 PM   #6
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What a sad list. Who, besides a prospective professor, would use these criteria to choose a university? They in no way reflect the quality of education students will receive.
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:19 PM   #7
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this is ridiculous! look how low they ranked Duke, for instance. and this seems really biased towards foreign colleges, doesn't it? I mean, half the Ivy League schools arent even on there...
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:40 PM   #8
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They in no way reflect the quality of education students will receive.
That is not really true.

Having top faculty researches will probably augment undergraduate student research. The quality of education said undergrads receive will effectively "increase."

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I mean, half the Ivy League schools arent even on there...
"half the Ivy League schools" obviously don't meet the research requirements.
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:48 PM   #9
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"mean, half the Ivy League schools arent even on there..."

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Really...half?
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:53 PM   #10
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this seems really biased towards foreign colleges
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"...
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:56 PM   #11
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Only Dartmouth is missing out of the Ivies, but the rankings don't make sense.

I don't think the US universities' rankings should conflict with the Top National Universities ranking or else one or the other list is nullified. Either way, I think this proves how accurate rankings really are. (one publisher ranking in multiple ways is just funny)
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Old 08-15-2006, 02:59 PM   #12
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AMEN someone finally got it right UCLA above Princeton...this is a sports ranking right?
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Old 08-15-2006, 03:00 PM   #13
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sad part: i go to ucla
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Old 08-15-2006, 03:03 PM   #14
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That list is excellent. University of Tokyo deserves props.
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Old 08-15-2006, 03:03 PM   #15
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I am satisfied with those rankings.
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