Random Number Crunching of Arbitrary Formula Leads to Berkeley Placing FIFTH!!!

Colleges & Universities University of California - Berkeley
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<p><a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/site/newsweek/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>The top ten:

  1. Harvard University
  2. Stanford University
  3. Yale University
  4. California Institute of Technology
    5. University of California at Berkeley
  5. University of Cambridge
  6. Massachusetts Institute Technology
  7. Oxford University
  8. University of California at San Francisco
  9. Columbia University</p>
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<p>Thats amazing. [/sarcasm]</p>

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<p>To quote a portion of the article that explains these rankings…</p>

<p>“NEWSWEEK devised a ranking of global universities that takes into account openness and diversity, as well as distinction in research. We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes).” </p>

<p>I read the article in its entirety and am quite proud to say I attend Berkeley, with no sarcasm in that statement. Go Bears!</p>

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<p>Hear, hear, I can agree with this.</p>

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<p>WHERE IS GEORGETOWN? </p>

<p>Anyway, yeah, Newsweek validates past world rankings: Berkeley, the best public university in the world (beating out Cambridge).</p>

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<p>"The top ten:

  1. Harvard University
  2. Stanford University
  3. Yale University
  4. California Institute of Technology
  5. University of California at Berkeley
  6. University of Cambridge
  7. Massachusetts Institute Technology
  8. Oxford University
  9. University of California at San Francisco
  10. Columbia University"</p>

<p>Sweet! This must mean I’m going to be more successful than any students from Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, UCSF and Columbia! Yay, I’m going to call my mom right now and tell her the good news :D</p>

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<p>Except, maybe I missed it, I must have missed it, but on this:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14325172/site/newsweek/[/url]”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14325172/site/newsweek/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Berkeley isn’t listed!?</p>

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<p>Berkeley has been an “elite” university for decades…it has no business on a top 25 new “mini-ivy” list.</p>

<p>And wow, is it just me or is that article not set up well for the web?</p>

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<p>Yeah, it ain’t…They say it’s a ‘tier-two’ of Non-Ivies.</p>

<p>I believe some other academic powerhouses are not listed: UChicago, Duke, Stanford, etc. I’m too lazy to doublecheck this. So basically, it’s pretty much assumed we are on par with the Ivies :cool:</p>

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<p>I guess Berkeley is where the cutoff happens, as UCLA and UVA are listed as the last schools.</p>

<p>By the way, hi guys.</p>

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<p>Some of these LACs I’ve never heard of. Interesting…</p>

<p>BTW gabe, where have you been?</p>

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<p>He’s been busy recruiting for our facebook groups :cool:</p>

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<p>Well, if it works, it works. :)</p>

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<p>hahaha, suckers</p>