<p>Also, the JiaoTong ARWU is extremely suspect. For example, in the 2009 rankings:</p>
<p>University of Minnesota = #28
Northwestern University = #30
Duke = #31</p>
<p>UCSD is better than most of the private schools, even duke. They are low in rankings just because they are public schools. Break it down by department, which fields is Duke better than UCLA or even UCSD? Don’t even compare Berkeley to Duke. Berkeley is far above Duke in every aspects. Arts & Humanities, Natural Sciences, Engineering &IT, Social Sciences, Life Sciences & Biomedicine. Berkeley’s 38 majors out of 39 are in top 10.</p>
<p>Btw, Northwestern deserves that 31-32 spot. They are virtually unknown outside of US like duke anyway.</p>
<p>Yale should be behind Caltech and Chicago if it weren’t for USnews.</p>