<p>First of all, I love Penn, because I live in Philly. And lots of my friends children are attending Penn. But I have to point out some facts.</p>
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<p>Almost none of these is true. You 'll find out by just looking at the US-NEWS graduate school ranking: [Best</a> College Rankings, Best Graduate School Rankings, Best Hospitals, and Best Health Insurance Companies – US News Rankings](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/sections/rankings/index.html]Best”>http://www.usnews.com/sections/rankings/index.html)</p>
<p>Gourman ranking is a BIG JOKE!!</p>
<p>Penn is better than Stanford in computer science? That is ridiculous. No other university on earth is better than Stanford in computer science. Period.</p>
<p>Stanford has 18 connections to Turing award (the ‘Nobel’ prize in computing) . Only Berkeley, CMU, and MIT have more than half of, or about half of that. Stanford has created YAHOO, GOOGLE, CISCO, H-P, and SUN. Stanford people have invented microprocessor, internet, 56K modem, computer mouse, multiprotocol internet router, DSL, google search engine, computer controled robot arm, computer controled robot cart, digital music synthesis, PASCAL, LISP, expert systems, and etc. The fundamental IT inventions churned out from Stanford far exceed any other place.</p>
<p>I’ll repeat that again. No other university on earth is better than Stanford in computer science.</p>
<p>The best example to prove that Gourman ranking sucks is that Gourman ranking doesn’t even rank Stanford’s computer science program for undergraduate. Lots of other Gourman rankings are also laughable. Don’t know how these rankings are created, perhaps are pulled out from the air?</p>