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I always don't understand when Americans say something like that. If you are, say, comparing between Cornell and John Hopkins, then it is true to say that Cornell is better than John Hopkins overall and if THES ranks John Hopkins ahead of Cornell THES is wrong. </p>
<p>But you are comparing Americans universities against foreign ones, and you must really be aware of the strengths of overseas universities to make good statements. I don't see what is the problem of Cornell being ranked lower than Beijing. Cornell is among the lower Ivies in the US, you know it. Also, John Hopkins is also not HYPSM material. Beijing University (Beida), Tokyo University (Todai) and NUS are pretty much the top three universities in Asia. </p>
<p>May be you can help to explain why Cornell must be ahead of Beida and John Hopkins must be ahead of NUS. Frankly, I see that there is nothing wrong with it.</p>