<p>limnieng: wow! that’s some allegation!</p>
<p>1) NUS has students MAINLY from india, china and the ASEAN countries… agreed? i can’t really comment on BU since i don’t know much about it- to be frank. so i’ll just choose to talk about UCLA… students go to UCLA from over 120 countries. so though there are less than 10% internationals, they come from crazily different backgrounds- and THAT’S real diversity. that’s what adds “value” to a university- the fact that you interact with people from soooo many different countries with different values, different traditions and ways of life! 
performance in ranking stats?? NUS gets awarded a 100/100 on “number of international students”, while UCLA gets merely 36!!</p>
<p>2) international faculty… well, i attended several lectures at NUS and NTU- sadly, their “international faculty” mainly consists of chinese and indian profs who’re frankly worse than even their singaporean counterparts when it comes to teaching!! (SMU does a much better job in this department though… they have faculty recruited from top-colleges all over the world including wharton, IIMs, HBS, UCLA, LSE, berkeley, oxford, cambridge etc. etc.). UCLA might have a lower proportion of international faculty- but those who’re there are there for a reason. example? terence tao!! he’s arguably the world’s most intelligent man alive right now and the greatest mathematician of the modern times!! he won a gold at the IMO at age 13! the guy’s a GENIUS! so that’s why he’s there!! and every other international faculty member at UCLA (they have detailed student reviews at <a href=“http://www.bruinwalk.com%5B/url%5D”>www.bruinwalk.com</a>) is there for a reason- unlike NUS. result? NUS gets a 100/100 for international faculty and UCLA gets a 23/100!!! </p>
<p>3) 6 factors were taken into considerations for the times higher education rankings (the only rankings that place NUS as high as UCLA- according to the rest, UCLA pwns NUS- anyways) so… for 2/6 factors, NUS scores crazily over UCLA… they STILL are ranked the same… so if we remove those factors where NUS has an “unfair” advantage, NUS goes down in the rankings!! if we hypothetically give UCLA 100s in both these categories (like NUS unfairly gets), UCLA (initial rank of both NUS and UCLA is 30) <em>sighs at how UCLA is underrated</em> gets the same rank as (drumrolls) STANFORD!! and if we award NUS the points that UCLA got according to the rankings (for those 2 given factors), NUS goes down from rank 30 to rank 144. see the difference??</p>
<p>:) still not impressed? ;)</p>