Worldwide University Rankings

sakky
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 01:03:20 +0000

What happened is that Harvard was found to have the top raw score, and then the ranking then rescaled everybody to be ‘relative to Harvard’. So obviously Harvard relative to Harvard was going to get a perfect score.

Now, to collegebound123, I never said that I didn’t like Berkeley or the undergraduate part of Berkeley. I have always said that the Berkeley undergraduate program is pretty good and that the graduate programs were great. On the other hand, there is a large gap in quality between the Berkeley undergraduate program and the Berkeley graduate programs, and we need to keep that in mind. Berkeley is a great place to go for graduate school, and is still a pretty good place to go for undergrad, but there are many other places that are probably better for undergrad. Hence, one optimal strategy seems to be to go elsewhere for undergrad, go to Berkeley for grad-school.