<p>[QS</a> World University Rankings - Topuniversities](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012]QS”>http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2012)</p>
<p>MIT rises to first, followed by Cambridge and Harvard.</p>
<p>I’d be willing to bet that an inverse correlation exists between what school someone is affiliated with and how seriously they take ANY of these so-called “ranking” schemes. Folks affiliated with MIT, Cambridge, Harvard, etc. probably don’t take these very seriously and folks that attend the University of Nowhere probably get excited when their school moves from 195th to 150th or something.</p>
<p>Actually, a top 200 university is not bad at all. Quite the contrary. I would say such rankings bear importance for grad studies, as research is one of the major evaluation factors. (Or, in case of the ARWU rankings, research and alumni are the most important factors.) Be as it may, ranking’s doesn’t really matter if you’re attending to a top 10 uni.</p>
<p>This ranking is the biggest joke that I’ve ever seen. MIT No.1? Come on.</p>
<p>World rankings value sciences more than humanities. It’s hard to deny that MIT is perhaps the biggest science powerhouse in the world…</p>
<p>One of my friends at MIT posted this last night on Facebook. He had a good laugh.</p>
<p>“World rankings value sciences more than humanities. It’s hard to deny that MIT is perhaps the biggest science powerhouse in the world…”</p>
<p>If that’s true, MIT should immediately be followed by Stanford and Berkeley.</p>
<p>Its a joke that imperial is better than cal tech. Actually the fact that these uk schools are ranked higher than many american schools with far higher quality research and faculty shows how biased the ranking system is.</p>
<p>UCL and Imperial in the top 10 is a joke indeed. (Note that on the Times rankings, which is also British, CalTech came 1st earlier this year so British rankings are perhaps not that biased. Though CalTech as first, khm…)</p>
<p>UCL Kings and all those lovely british schools can’t hold a candle to schools like Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Berkeley, UPenn, Stanford, Georgetown.</p>
<p>Well, Georgetown is not exactly a research powerhouse… The education it provides is great, but in terms of research it lags far behind all the mentioned universities. As a fact of matter, in research, Gtown lags behind King’s College and far behind UCL.<br>
(Don’t get me wrong: I would choose Georgetown over any British university, save Cambridge and Oxford, any time. But it’s not a research university.)</p>
<p>University of Bristol > Brown, Dartmouth, NYU, Carnegie, U Wash, Georgetown, UCLA???</p>
<p>LOL these rankings…</p>
<p>Well, at least Michigan ranks higher than it does in US News.</p>
<p>I kid of course … college rankings aren’t that insightful, especially since they don’t take into account football. </p>
<p>And I kid again…</p>
<p>These rankings are specifically designed to stroke the ego of 2nd class british universities. I personally know many MIT students that spenda year abroad at imperial or cambridge because they just want to take a breather and say the classwork is easy in the extreme while many of the snobbish locals would probably have ended their lives a week into a MIT education.</p>
<p>A fine ■■■■■, you are.</p>