2009 SJTU World Univ. Rankings out

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<p>Pick up a newspaper.</p>

<p><a href=“http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?showtopic=23635[/url]”>http://artsandfaith.com/index.php?showtopic=23635&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://marquettetribune.org/2009/09/22/viewpoints/career-fair-needs-to-include-liberal-arts-majors[/url]”>http://marquettetribune.org/2009/09/22/viewpoints/career-fair-needs-to-include-liberal-arts-majors&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p><a href=“http://blog.onecubicle.com/2009/09/16/from-ivy-league-to-unemployed-how-college-grads-should-approach-the-job-hunt/[/url]”>http://blog.onecubicle.com/2009/09/16/from-ivy-league-to-unemployed-how-college-grads-should-approach-the-job-hunt/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Perhaps you’d like Barrons to also back up the statement “the sky is blue”.</p>

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<p>barrons, I want statistics. Numbers. I like numbers in general.</p>

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<p>Re the methodology used for these “rankings,” heaven forbid that there should be anything in there that might relate to what the student is going to experience. LOL. I mean, taking the consumer/customer’s interest into consideration when ranking colleges is just so…just so…beneath those lords of academia.</p>

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<p>The liberal arts lobby has blocked collection of any such data-so we have to rely on anecdotes and news stories.</p>

<p>Now there were a few years when companies hired all sorts of liberal arts grads–and that resulted in the Dotcom Bust. After a few years they forgot that lesson and did it again–this time on Wall Street. And we had the financial meltdown. All because some kids wanted to avoid taking any more math classes in college, but some dummy gave them lots of real money to play with because their diploma has a certain seal on it.</p>

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<p>I would much rather have the hard evidence. </p>

<p>And plus, your original statement was that math/science was what all the smart people were doing. This is obviously false.</p>

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<p>Math/Physics phd’s were the ones advising hedge funds and pricing derivatives that blew up. Tech majors are generally tools not leaders. Get a lib arts degree then you can get a grad degree in a trade like biznezz-the Prof’s even read the books to you!</p>

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<p>Stooge, many of the math/physics grads were designing risk models that were reasonable. It was the fact that the quants were all using the same models in ignorance due to lack of registering the models with a regulatory/supervising entity that caused the explosion. Hedge funds have actually had more inflow of capital in the past year, and also did not cause the financial crisis – it was a bank failure, not an alternative investment strategy one.</p>

<p>Just clarifying the misconception…</p>

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<p>Right on, being a bit sarcastic. Shocked the argument - tech v liberal arts continues. Is biology a lib art? Math? Sociology? Psych? Seems you can have tons of tech education in those majors. Smart kids are everywhere.</p>

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<p>Using Alumni is particularly ridiculous when you consider that the number of alumni produced each year by different schools can vary by orders of magnitude (thus biasing towards state schools to some extent, among other things).</p>

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<p>The top 10 schools are deserving. </p>

<p>my personal observation, UMich should be in the top 15. UCLA and UCSD were ranked a little too high. UCL was ranked too high. Tokyo should be in the top 20.</p>