World University Rankings 2017

reuynshard
Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:12:01 +0000

No academic I’ve ever spoken to takes the QS Rankings seriously. Apart from the International Students/Faculty indicator which skews results in favor of small countries, the academic and employer reputation surveys are highly suspect. For instance, in the employer reputation category, NUS (100.0) ranks higher than Princeton (97.9), Caltech (80.7), U Chicago (94.1), and has the same score as Yale, Harvard and Oxbridge. I live in Singapore, and the idea of an employer preferring NUS grads on average over the above mentioned universities is just laughable

For a good dose of humor, take a look at the subject rankings. For instance, in the Engineering & Technology Category, NTU beats Berkeley and Caltech, while Universiti Malaya ranks higher than Princeton and Cornell.