<p>A world-class university is one that has the following:
world-class name recognition and respect by the scholars, school officials, government/country, employers, or the educated community in general.
contributed to the betterment of the world through their great research output.
world-class, state-of-the-art facilities
world-class, prominent faculty
bright students from all over the world</p>
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Good list, but I would replace UCLA with MIT and add Caltech to the list. Columbia is also worth noting. But it does not probably have the prestige that the top 8 have. </p>
<p>The list should look something like this:</p>
<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li><p>Cambridge, MIT, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Yale, Caltech
-end of top 8</p></li>
<li><p>Columbia</p></li>
<li><p>Cornell, Chicago, Michigan, JHU, UPenn, London School of Economics </p></li>
<li><p>UCLA, NYU, CMU, Georgia Tech, Imperial College London and other great universities in the Europe. </p></li>
<li><p>UIUC, Texas-Austin, UCSD</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Schee, what I mean by “gaming the rankings” has to do with a school purposely providing questionable/manipulated data to USN&WR, for example, so it can jump up several places in one year. It has nothing to do with an earnest desire to improve its weaknesses over time, though a school can do both, of course. A world-class university does not need to stoop that low, regardless of its place in that magazine’s annual popularity contest, whose methodology is disrespected in academia.</p>
<p>Duke goes to group 4. Sorry that I missed Duke, but it’s a leading university of world-class prestige and recognition. I probably also missed some more great, world-class universities. Sorry; I was in a hurry posting that.</p>
<p>CMU and Georgia Tech are research powerhouses. Not only that, they have some of the best faculty on earth on their respective fields of studies. Their research outputs are of much better quality than many universities out there.</p>
<p>1Harvard
2Stanford
Berkeley
Cambridge
MIT
Caltech
Columbia
Princeton
Oxford
Yale
Cornell
UCLA
UCSD
UPenn
UWashington Seattle
UWisconsin Madison
UCSF (Any ranking that doesn’t have UCSF as a world class institution … lol)
Tokyo Univ.
Johns Hopkins
UMichigan
College London
Kyoto
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<p>Just on the top of my head, the ff schools are said to be world-class institutions but weren’t in my original list:</p>
<p>(United States)
Northwestern - in group 4
Case Western Reserve U - group 5
Tufts
Rice
UC Davis
UC Irvine
Brown
EMORY University</p>
<p>(International)
University of Tokyo
University of Kyoto
Tohuko University
Waseda
OSAKA University
TOKYO Institute of Technology</p>
<p>IIT, India</p>
<p>University College London (UCL)
Warwick (UK)
Edinburgh
Manchester
Nottingham
Bristol
Durham
Newcastle Upon Tyne
King’s College</p>
<p>University of New South Wales
U of Melbourne
U of Sydney
Monash, Australia
Australian National U
Curtin University of Technology
University of QUEENSLAND</p>
<p>McGill, Canada
U fo Toronto, Canada
U of British Columbia, Canada</p>
<p>National University of Singapore
Nanyang</p>
<p>(Southeast Asia)
Universiti Malaya
the University of the Philippines
Chulalongkorn University, Thailand</p>
<p>I think that, in general, LSE has more respect than NYU has, internationally. LSE may not be as quite respected in the US as NYU, but in most parts of the world, especially in the Commonwealth countries, LSE is considered a powerhouse in programmes that it offers. More than half of LSE’s students are from outside of the UK. </p>
<p>Princeton belongs to group 4, along with Columbia.</p>
<p>Just out of the curiousity, RML, why do you hate UCLA? On which criteria you say UCLA should be in group 6 with NYU and Ga Tech, while CWRU and Michigan is in group 5?</p>
<p>Are you purposely omitting WUSTL? I could see how you could make a case against it based on its lack of name recognition, but I still feel like it is more of a world class institution than, say, UC Davis or UC Irvine (nothing against those schools).</p>
<p>I would use the quality of students & faculty members, and the size of endowment per student to measure a school. In that sense, HYPS dwarfs everyone.</p>
<p>I thought many may list MSU on their list due to ( a few reasons):
If not largest, one of the largest study abroad programs
Michigan State University located in Dubai
Lead in many programs/ graduate schools</p>
<p>Establishing a campus in other countries won’t make the school world-class. It would only diminish the school’s credibility and prestige. Schools should rather establish partnerships and tie-ups or collaboration with other prominent universities in other countries. For example, instead of establishing an MIT in the UK, MIT rather established a partnership with Cambridge and together created a collaboration helping out each other. [The</a> Cambridge-MIT Institute](<a href=“http://www.cmi.cam.ac.uk/]The”>http://www.cmi.cam.ac.uk/) </p>
<p>HeSaidThis, I don’t hate UCLA. As a matter of fact, I think UCLA is a great school and has a world-wide recognition. I just don’t think it’s in the top 10 best schools in the world. There are several schools that are better regarded than UCLA. Saying this in anyway does not mean I’m bashing your school. Far from it.</p>
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<p>I failed to include in the list some schools because I’m not familiar with them. WashingtonUSL is surely a great school. I just don’t have any idea where it would place in the international scene. But I bet not too high given that its focus is on undergrad level. Same thing for Notre Dame, Vanderbilt and the like.</p>
<p>Duke Fuqua is embarking on a $500 million dollar international campus expansion in New Delhi, India; St. Petersburg, Russia; Dubai, UAE; London, UK; and Shanghai, China.</p>
<p>It’s one thing to establish a collaboration or partnership. Duke is establishing a physical main campus in each of these new locations as well as creating a collaboration partnership with a leading business school in that foreign country. Duke medical school has a partnership with National University of Singapore and a Duke-NUS Graduate campus in Singapore…</p>
<p>I’m not sure why establishing a network of campuses around the world to conduct research and deliver programs could “diminish or reduce the prestige or credibility of a school.” It’s all the rage to go international and strive to become a “global university.” </p>
<p>UPenn is establishing real connections with AIDS/CANCER initiatives in the heart of Africa with Kenyan and Nairobi universities… It’s different to establish a permanent physical presence with your own foot soldiers on the ground. It’s arguably a logistical nightmare to get world renown faculty to actually travel there far outside the home campus of Duke… It also cost a lot of money too :)</p>
<p>In the Qatar situation, Qatar actually invited several world class universities like Weill Cornell medical school, Northwestern Medill Communications, Georgetown School of Foreign Affairs, Johns Hopkins Medical International, etc… to set up international cooperations and partnerships and actually offered to pay for a campus construction for several of the universities mentioned above. It’s a real honor to be invited by Qatar to have a campus set up in their home nation…</p>
<p>I agree that LSE might be more prestigious than NYU, but I would also argue that NYU is more of a world-class uni than LSE. NYU’s Econ department is, believe or not, ranked higher than LSE’s. And there are numerous programs/schools throughout the university that are also ranked very highly. In addition, NYU has around a dozen Study Abroad sites. Being a world-class university requires more than a quality education; a world-class university must be highly-respected. It must also, most importantly, train its students to be cosmopolitans - citizens of the world. Living on the streets of New York promotes a much more cosmopolitan lifestyle than living on a cozy campus with fresh green quadrangles in the middle of nowhere, even if the quality of education at <em>Bumble</em>*** University might be higher.</p>