World University Rankings 2017

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Thu, 09 Mar 2017 16:41:03 +0000

Arguably the biggest bias in that ranking is giving a full 10 percent of the formula to the percentage of international students and faculty, as a proxy for how well the schools are respected in other countries.

That’s nonsense. The top US schools could be 100 percent foreign students if they wanted to be. The reason that a European or South Asian chooses University college London or Imperial College London or ETF Zurich is because they can get admitted there, not because they actuallly prefer them over UChicago, Princeton, Yale or Columbia, all of which are behind them on the list.

The British newspaper that sponsors that ranking undoubtedly knows this, but it wants to appeal to its audience.