Why is Brown not as highly ranked on US News?

onlinepass
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:18:49 +0000

Many scholars, at least, seem to be saying that rankings based on peer-review are not accurate enough, while teaching and student quality cannot be measured internationally, so the only way to measure global university rankings is by measuring their top-level research output.

I agree, but no need to worry; Brown’s ranking is not so high, but its per-capita score for both awards and for citations is in the pretty high end (its per-capita performance score is identical to Columbia’s, if that means anything).

I hope we get one or more Nobel Laureates from our current group of faculty members soon.

I also ditched Chicago (ranked at 9th) for Brown, but what the hell; the SJTU rankings weren’t regarded well in 2003 or 04, while Brown beat Chicago in the US News rankings until 2005.

And I haven’t even graduated since I’ve been on leave, but returning to Brown as a senior this fall; I have a dorm in Metcalf.