Russian Ranking Agency ranks UChicago #3 in the world.

Colleges & Universities University of Chicago
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Inclined toward the reputational ratings, which, while as spurious and arbitrarily weighted as everything else in this ranking, reflect something–viz. the spurious and arbitrary (?) perceptions of [academics, supposedly].

http://roundranking.com/ranking.html

Teaching reputation (2017):

  1. Harvard
  2. MIT
  3. Stanford
  4. Cambridge
  5. Berkeley
  6. Oxford
  7. Princeton
  8. UCLA
  9. Yale
  10. Cal Tech

Research reputation:

  1. Harvard
  2. MIT
  3. Stanford
  4. Berkeley
  5. Cambridge
  6. Oxford
  7. Princeton
  8. UCLA
  9. Yale
  10. Cal Tech

Reputation outside region:

  1. ???
  2. Harvard
  3. MIT
  4. Stanford
  5. Cambridge
  6. Berkeley
  7. Oxford
  8. Princeton
  9. UCLA
  10. Cal Tech

(And a rating from last year, 2016, based purely on “research productivity” and reputation, though two of the metrics heavily favor international schools like Oxford and Cambridge.). http://roundranking.com/performance-rankings.html

1 Imperial College London
2 California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

3 University of Oxford

4 University of Cambridge
5 Karolinska Institute

6 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

7 University College London

8 Princeton University

9 Harvard University

10 Leiden University

11 University of California, Berkeley

12 University of Geneva

13 Wageningen University and Research Center

14 University of Edinburgh

15 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven)

16 University of Chicago

17 King`s College London

18 Erasmus University Rotterdam

19 University of California, Santa Barbara
20 University of Toronto

21 Utrecht University

22 Technical University of Munich

23 Stanford University
24 National University of Singapore

25 University of Groningen

[The other rankings posted on this thread, like the QS and THES, also look much different when stripped of the particularly bad attempts to measure “quality of teaching.”]

What a tedium.