Is McGill overrated?

violindad
Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:44:28 +0000

Whether or not a university is overrated depends on what one believes the ratings represent, so I don’t think there is a simple correct answer to the thread’s title question: “Is McGill overrated?”

However, the answer to the OP’s post question (“Is McGill really still that internationally renowned uni that it once was years ago?”), I think the answer is an unequivocable yes. No matter what rankings one examines, only three or four countries out of almost 200 in the world have a university that ranks higher than McGill. In other words, McGill usually ranks above the very best in Germany, China, Japan, France, Australia etc… McGill is always within the top 0.3% or so of the universities worldwide.