College Rankings

CaliChineseGrl
Thu, 02 Dec 2004 01:41:16 +0000

i don’t have extensive knowledge of berkeley. but i have been to a organic chemistry lecture (i am a junior) just to get a feel of the berkeley environment and my brother goes there (of course, i can’t make accurate judgement based on just one class). the professor for the class i sit in was actually really good. i think in any top ranking schools with top research facilities, there will be professors who care more about their research.

going back to ranking. the world ranking are based on a peer review score, which has half the weight of the total score, an international faculty review score, an international student review score, faculty-to-student ratio, and a citations-to-faculty ratio.

berkeley draws a number of ambitious international students. to my personal knowledge especially asia. everyone is hong kong knows about berkeley but few knows about cornell. of course, that does not mean that cornell’s academics are below berkeley. it simply indicate that in order to be a top ranking school, it needs to attracts good students.