UC vs IVY LEAGUE

sakky
Mon, 29 May 2006 00:16:37 +0000

UCLAri, the Times and the Shanghai ratings for example both have Berkeley well ahead of Princeton



The Times ranking has Berkeley 3 slots ahead of Princeton. Is that “way ahead”? I guess that’s all a matter of how you define “way ahead”.

THES - Wikipedia;

The Shanghai ranking has Berkeley 4 slots ahead of Princeton. Whether that’s “way ahead” again depends on how you define the term.

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005_Top100.htm

Furthermore, both of these rankings are a consolidated undergrad+ grad ranking that mostly focuses on research. Non-research focused schools, such as the LAC’s or quasi-LAC’s, don’t get much mention. For example, according to the Shanghai ranking, Umass gets a higher ranking than Dartmouth. I doubt that too many people would choose to go to UMass instead of Dartmouth for undergrad (except to save money). Wisconsin is ranked higher than Duke or Northwestern. How many people are really going to go to Wisconsin over Duke or NW for undergrad, again, unless to save money?