<p>But the vast majority of undergrads don’t do research. The global university rankings focus predominately on research, many of them have no undergraduate metric whatsoever.</p>
<p>Tsinghua University is an elite Chinese university that is almost inconceivably selective, does a lot of research, and any student who goes there as an undergrad would pick USC or UCLA instead in a minute. “Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities” isn’t a meaningless metric, but it’s meaningless to most undergrads.</p>