<p>I just found this link and was very NOT surprised by some results.
[University</a> Rankings (1910-present)](<a href=“http://unirank.blogspot.com/2012/06/university-rankings-1906-first-attempt.html]University”>University Rankings (1910-present))
and
[University</a> Rankings (1910-present)](<a href=“http://unirank.blogspot.com/2012/06/1925-american-university-rankings-in.html]University”>University Rankings (1910-present))</p>
<p>The methodologies for these rankings are just as bad as most used today. Graduate programs and famous faculty do not translate into quality undergraduate teaching and classroom experience.</p>
<p>Weird seeing MIT at the bottom of the list, but I guess it really must have taken off during the computer boom.</p>
<p>Can you find any world rankings from those times?</p>
<p>Any world rankings done during that time would likely be incredibly Eurocentric, far more so than today.</p>
<p>I guess, still would be cool to see what the rankings would be.
Besides you could argue that today’s rankings are american/british/anglophone centric.</p>