<p>Go Bears!!</p>
<p>This is really weird. Stanford came in first for arts and humanities.</p>
<p>Now, Stanford is an excellent school. I concede it is one of the best in the world. However, one of the areas it’s not particularly strong in–compared to other areas–is fine arts. </p>
<p>UMass comes in at #42. It’s strong in certain areas…but #42 in the world? Seriously?</p>
<p>Because internationals know of the state of Massachusetts. That’s all. This is why this list is completely irrelevant and merely a referendum on “what I’ve heard bout and assume to be good.”</p>
<p>I still say this has value when it comes to getting a job.</p>
<p>People get great educations from colleges nobody knows about then interview for a job with someone who knows nothing about the school and now you’ve become a risky hire. Familiarity is important in getting some jobs and the more important the job, the more important familiarity and reputation become.</p>
<p>Come to think of it, the Elbonian National Academy of Dairy Sciences has a couple of members that went to Purdue :)</p>
<p>Something has to do with alumni networks… I know the alum relations / administrative people at Purdue were in contact with alums in some pretty exotic places where there are lots of Purdue alums, etc. (UAE, India…).</p>
<p>And I’d put the Texas A&M network up against the Dartmouth network any day in certain parts of the country. The strength of an alumni network is really not related to the academic merit of the school. Too many unsophisticated people on CC think that jobs are only occupied by ivy / similar school grads. Welcome to the real world.</p>
<p>“People get great educations from colleges nobody knows about then interview for a job with someone who knows nothing about the school and now you’ve become a risky hire. Familiarity is important in getting some jobs and the more important the job, the more important familiarity and reputation become.”</p>
<p>Yes, familiarity is important in getting some jobs. However, it is odd to me that you would characterize some jobs as “more important than others.” The only job I care about is the one I want. This is the usual silly stupidity in which someone chimes in “but you can’t go work at Goldman Sachs unless you’ve gone to one of a handful of schools!” Well, yeah, true. But it’s not more important of a job. It’s just one of many jobs, and completely irrelevant to the 99% of students who have no interest in working at GS. It’s not a bellwether.</p>
<p>There are not enough Ivy grads to fill even a small portion of all the good jobs out there. And even fewer that would be a good fit.</p>
<p>I was expecting U. Mich. to be in the top 10.</p>
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<p>Xiggi, apart from being rather boisterous in your response, you are not quite correct either.</p>
<p>Elbonians, as I said, are not asked to list or comment on US universities at all, or to distinguish Michigan State from Michigan or Harvard from Howard.</p>
<p>They list 15 universities within their own continent, and then yes, separately 15 from anywhere in the world. There is no list for them to score and no need to judge any place they haven’t really heard of.</p>
<p>And surely even Elbonians can be experts, rather than “experts”.</p>