UW comes in as #2 public. The World's Top Universities of 2026 | TIME
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Of US universities ; )
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According to Raj Chetty.
Congratulations. Wonder who was #1 public in this ranking. Lol
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As is the case with any attempts to boil down huge institutions to a single number, some questions inevitably arise.
What jumps out at me immediately, is that they have University of Michigan ranked higher than Princeton, Caltech, and ETH Zurich (none of whom make it into the Top 10).
And National University of Singapore is at #79?
QS World University Rankings methodology seems to produce a picture that is more in line with what one would expect.
That said, I found this interesting:
"Our own research using big data to study the outcomes of millions of college students over time underscores this point in the United States. Fewer than 1% of Americans attend the 12 “Ivy-Plus” colleges (the eight Ivy League schools plus Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago), yet they account for over 13% of those in the top 0.1% of earners, a quarter of U.S. Senators, half of all Rhodes scholars, and three-fourths of Supreme Court justices appointed in the last half-century.
These institutions don’t merely select talented students but directly change their life trajectories. Comparing waitlisted students who were accepted vs. rejected from these institutions essentially by chance, we find that those who attend an Ivy-Plus college are far more likely to reach the top 1% of the income distribution, work at prestigious firms, and achieve success in many other dimensions. Selective colleges have extraordinary influence."
Sure goes against some of the CC’s conventional wisdom.
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I see this is more Raj Chetty’s research:
He did a bunch awhile back:
You can dig in if you want! lots of links here..there was lots of media coverage too..