<p>All we do here is bicker over positioning of USNews, so I thought we might like to look at something else for a change.
The advantage of this over USNews is, since it has little or no influence on domestic college applications, Universities do not (and in many categories cannot) manipulate their statistics to move up and displace other schools.
That and it’s just fun to look at.
Oh, and note that this is based mainly on research produced by Universitie,s not undergraduate education (which USNews pretends it ranks…)</p>
<p><a href=“http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm[/url]”>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm</a></p>
<p>If you don’t feel like clicking the link, here are the Top 15. </p>
<li>Harvard University</li>
<li>Cambridge University</li>
<li>Stanford University</li>
<li>University Of California Berkeley</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Columbia University</li>
<li>Princeton University</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>Oxford University</li>
<li>Yale University</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>University of California - San Diego</li>
<li>University of California - Los Angeles</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
</ol>
<p>Oog... I don't like rankings of any kind.</p>
<p>This one in particular emphasizes research done at universities? I guess that helps grad students much more than undergrads since undergrads (Even though many do research), still are not given as much responsibilities in whatever they're researching as grad students (for obvious reasons).</p>
<p>Also, an undergrad degree doesn't always require research, and unlike some grad degrees, doesn't hinge upon your thesis.</p>
<p>Glad to see Berkeley get some credit it deserves though. They diarrhea quality research :p</p>
<p>That ranking has been put up so many times and it has many times been called laughable. If you want to rank research universities look at ASU TheCenter rankings or the Timer High Education Supplement. While both are not perfect, they are surely better than the SJTU rankings.</p>
<p>The faculty is judged solely upon the receipt of either a nobel prize or a fields medal. When judging the faculty quality of an American university, membership in the National Academies should be quantified in the adjudication. Further, they place great emphasis on Nature and Science--and while this is a highly regarding journal, it is only one. So there are some issues with this ranking.</p>
<p><a href="http://mup.asu.edu/research2006.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://mup.asu.edu/research2006.pdf</a> --Big PDF, very thorough.
As for the THES, you'd have to subscribe to the London Times.</p>
<p>The Times rankings place much emphasis on the numbers of international students and faculty. This seems meaningless for the most part and distorts the rankings quite a bit in favor of foreign schools.</p>