<p>Now from London
<a href="http://www.thes.co.uk/%5B/url%5D">http://www.thes.co.uk/</a>
Since you have to register there, I'll post top100 from that list
P.S.: I don't support those rankings, I just want to hear an opinion of people about how foreign ****ries judge colleges in the US
P.P.S.: UC Davis is not in top200 :(
2005 Name Country
rank<br>
1 Harvard University US
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology US
3 Cambridge University UK
4 Oxford University UK
5 Stanford University US
6 University of California, Berkeley US
7 Yale University US
8 California Institute of Technology US
9 Princeton University US
10 Ecole Polytechnique France
11= Duke University US
11= London School of Economics UK
13 Imperial College London UK
14 Cornell University US
15 Beijing University China
16 Tokyo University Japan
17= University of California, San Francisco US
17= University of Chicago US
19 Melbourne University Australia
20 Columbia University US
21 ETH Zurich Switzerland
22 National University of Singapore Singapore
23 Australian National University Australia
24= Ecole Normale Sup</p>
<p>How can both BU and UMass be ahead of Wisconsin?</p>
<p>Absolutely, positively, awful.</p>
<p>its alright i guess, not too bad. as a reminder, its mainly based on reputation of the school in academia. so this means it will benefit universities with a long history of excellence or simply produces a lot of research. schools that seem out of place like beijing university are that high cause its the only well known university in china, so it gets more recognition than columbia even though we all know columbia probably produces more stuff and has a better faculty. this ranking is also solely based on graduate research so schools like brown gets screwed since they dont produce enough research and are more focused towards undergraduate education. this is a problem but i think its really hard to create a ranking that ranks "educational quality" since its hard to measure. this ranking simply surveys famous people in academia and uses several other factors to rank the school. this might be looked at as also subjective and bad, but i guess its slightly better than the other alternatives.</p>
<p>wisconsin might not publish as heavily in well known international journals as the other 2 schools. i mean prestige is dependent on the perception of others and i guess internationally wisconsin just either underpublishes research or the articles they publish arent very favorable with academians from other countries</p>
<p>Wisc and Umass (among others) are way better than williams, amherst, etc.</p>
<p>Nice list.</p>
<p>how can internationals evaluate williams and amherst? they cant quantify a schools educational quality so they have to look at the research they produce and amherst and williams are not even considered for this ranking cause they dont really produce any</p>
<p>17= University of California, San Francisco US</p>
<p>WHAT THE ****?????</p>
<p>I'm glad to see Brown all the way down to number 71. Its not that great. Its the worst Ivy in my opinion.</p>
<p>93= Seoul National University South Korea</p>
<p>People in Korea work harder than harvard-bound students.</p>
<p>"this ranking is also solely based on graduate research so schools like brown gets screwed"</p>
<p>Please, at least read the methodology before posting. You are 100% wrong.</p>
<p>Please learn how to spell 'countries.' There is nothing in your post that requires asterisks...</p>
<p>^^^Who is that meant for?</p>
<p>Pleas lern how to use forum since 70% of all long posts contain at least 1 mistake. It's forum, not an essay or a report. Get over it</p>
<p>Ok, now I get it.</p>
<p>"Please, at least read the methodology before posting. You are 100% wrong."</p>
<p>this ranking takes into account peer evaluation, recruiters eye, international student, international faculty, citations, fauculty student score. these are all factors that affect huge graduate schools because good marks in peer evalutaions need a lot of research so other schools and academians will know you. most schools with a lot of international faculty focus heavily on research because most huge research schools attract a lot of good faculty from across the globe. international students are also more prominent at huge research universities because most international students do either PHD or masters so they will usually go to universities with a lot of funding and can engage in a lot of projects with professors. citations are self explanatory because the more papers you publish, the more likely you will be citied. the only portion that doesnt relate to research is the faculty student score and the recruiter's eye score also usually benefits big research universities cause they are more well known.</p>
<p>Yale at #7?
Princeton at #9?
Penn State at #60some?
Unbelievable...</p>
<p>17= University of California, San Francisco US</p>
<p>HELLO?</p>
<p>UCSF is only good for biology. Thats it and that doesnt merit #17 in the world.</p>
<p>"this ranking is also solely based on graduate research"</p>
<p>How do you know that peer evaluation is based solely on grad schools? Its laughable that you'd stick to your guns on this one. Just because you have a theory that peers only judge on amount of research being put out doesn't make it so. And how does faculty/student ratio factor into anything? I beleive that they take into acount alll students, not just grad students. You're wrong. Its ok that you're wrong, but tapdanceing around and trying to make excuses doesn't make you right. You can say that these rankings favor large research schools, but you can't say that they are "solely based on graduate research," because its very obvious that they are not.</p>
<p>Lots of people here say</p>
<p>"Ranking Sucks"</p>
<p>When it's not ranked according to their standards..</p>
<p>It seems to do a good job of ranking the non-U.S. universities...but as for ranking the American schools (and splicing the non-U.S. unis in), it does a pretty ****-poor job.</p>
<p>I don't know too many people going to Penn State over Brown, or University of New South Wales over Northwestern.</p>
<p>As for "Pennsylvania University"....</p>