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Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:02:45 +0000

Any ranking with Berkeley below 10 is considering too subjective.

Please check Shanghai JTU’s rew ranking out, which ranks Berkeley #3 in the world. Those chinese scholars used all objective data. One can argue that, that ranking is more into research than undergraduate education. Yeah, right. Then why don’t we do a semi-research universities/LACs ranking for schools like Dartmouth, Brown, or something like that since they are not research-oriented universities?

Funny, double/triple standard to fit whatever SOME people want - that’s what the whole ranking thing does.



You do realize that that was almost all graduate affected. That ranking was a complete joke that utilized no factors relating to teaching, and used an extremely flawed judgement of research. RAND would probably be top 5 according to that ranking, and it is a corporation.

Berkeley is an excellent institution, but that ranking has nothing to do with that. It also is at it’s best for graduates, where it focuses, and where it is less affected by it’s instate needs and size. It isn’t a top 10 undergraduate institution. It can be for those who maximize it, but so can many schools. Berkeley isn’t ‘special’ for UG’s, it is however very much so for grads.

And once again - that asian ranking is a complete and utter joke which should be burnt from your and everyone else’s mind. (unless you want to go to a Math/Sci grad school, in which case it could almost be close to valuable)