How did Yale end up so weak in science?

harvardfan
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:58:20 +0000

Here is the new ranking of engineering productivity for the world universities. Yale ranks 145 in the world and 52 in the US (http://ranking.heeact.edu.tw/en-us/2009%20by%20Fields/Domain/ENG). If you only look at the average citation per paper, MD Anderson Medical Center is the best. So, indulging on average citation per paper is meaningless because you can a faculty co-authoring in one or two high impact paper but do nothing else and will get the great results. Overall, Yale is not bad in life science, but a little weak in natural science and engineering. The extramural funding for Yale engineering is also quite small in comparison with other big engineering schools. I don’t think that the engineering program is something Yale is proud of.