Russian Ranking Agency ranks UChicago #3 in the world.

[Parapraxes]

What is the “method” of this “[methodology]?” What does it signify? Why is this helterskelter confabulation more relevant to the “quality of instruction and research” it purports to measure than the “Russian PhD” quibble is to this thread?

As I say, I would salvage only the reputation ratings–if anything–because one might assume that they represent something about the beliefs of actual scholars, even if that something is a nothing.

“[T]ransparent” and “coherent” indeed, like a clogged strainer dunked in a methodographic abysm! Can you replicate the results; can you explain why “Academic Staff per Student” and “Academic Staff per Bachelors Degrees Awarded” signify 40% of a school’s power of teaching?

Let’s not speak of errors in data aggregation and so on…

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 performance,” though two of the metrics heavily favor non-American schools.). 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 forum, like the QS and THES, also look much different when stripped of the particularly bad attempts to measure “quality of teaching.”]