<p>check out the link.</p>
<p>Here are some "highlights" (depending on how you look at it)
-Yale and Princeton at 35 and 36?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-WUSTL at 39?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Hopkins at 54?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-University of Nebraska at Lincoln > Northwestern?!!!!!!</p>
<p>etc.</p>
<p>Any comments as to how this is possible?</p>
<p>their criteria is probably based on something else besides grades...or else theres no way penn state would be 2 spots ABOVE upenn, or uminn would be above columbia, or texas a&m above uva, or iowa above john hopkins, or arizona state over brown, or nc state over notre dame, or george mason, umass, and umiss even on the list.....get what i'm saying</p>
<p>you have to find out the criteria on which these things are based and even then take it with a grain of salt</p>
<p>It is based on web activity. I have no problem with it (UW #8!!) ;-)</p>
<p>This is not a ranking of colleges but of colleges use of web pages
"The aim of this project is not to rank the institutions according to quality of the education provided nor their academic prestige, so it should not be used for comparing them or as a guide for choosing university by candidate students.</p>
<p>Webometric indicators are provided to show the commitment of the institutions to Web publication and to the Open Access initiatives."</p>
<p>based on web activity? That's pretty funny</p>