<p>Cornellian Pride!!!!
:D</p>
<p>oh yeah.........
heres the link
<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2006/03/us_universities.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/economicsunbound/archives/2006/03/us_universities.html</a></p>
<p>And 13th in the US</p>
<p>are those rankings for the world even true? I mean, public schools such as UCSD and UCLA are better than UPenn and JHU?</p>
<p>those rankings take into account not just undergraduate but also graduate school offerings. UC Berkeley has one of the best business schools in the world, and UCSD's biological research department is second to Harvard. Also, it doesn't count stupid things like acceptance rate, yield rate, high school GPA avg (which we all know is a BS rating), etc. Personally, I'd say it's a more accurate assessment than USNews.</p>
<p>These rankings seem like a better assessment. There's no ****ing WashU lingering around the top ten. Thank god.</p>
<p>Seattle= 17th?</p>
<p>yeah. when i looked at the rankings like last year i had no idea what washU was and i wondered why it was ranked so high lol</p>
<p>but that's probably just me being ignorant</p>
<p>remember the distinction:
US News = undergraduate quality
Most other rankings = graduate and professional schools, research by faculty, so on</p>
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<p>Why should a school's "public" or "private" nature be a determining factor in its quality, anyway? Are you going to tell me that BJU is better than UCLA just because it's private?</p>
<p>And UPenn is public</p>
<p>UPenn is not public, bmanbs2. Penn State is public. University of Pennsylvania, which is in Philadelphia, is a private school and part of the Ivy League.</p>
<p>Does anyone know what that report used as a basis for it's ranking? I'm rather curious. I don't understand how the quality of any education can be ranked, because it's so subjective. That's why I like the USNews ranking - it's based on statistical thing and mostly objective. </p>
<p>Also, don't go knocking WashU. It's quite good.</p>
<p>UCLAri,</p>
<p>I didn't mean to say they are not as good because they are publics. I obviously didn't include UCB there because, IMHO, UCB is at least on par with UPenn and JHU. But, I thought UCSD and UCLA were not on the same level as those schools. That's why I was wondering if those rankings are correct or not. However, from dh277's post, I realized that it could be my ignorance to think that UPenn and JHU are better.</p>
<p>UCSD claims (at least the tour guides do) that they get the most government funding for scientific research, so that's probably a big factor in deciding how good the school is.</p>
<p>lets get this straight. Why should Cornellians feel inferior, we're one of the top schools in the world and the nation. For all those who claim to have the inferiority complex, you are not inferior. Out of the thousands of colleges in the United States you are eaisly the top 1%, and as for the hundreds of thousands of collegs across the world Cornell is number 12. Cornellians dont feel inferior, all it is that all the kids who go to the top schools have an inherent tendancy to rib other top schools. For all Cornellians, you're the top 1% of the world, hold your head high. (And the same goes for other top universities)</p>
<p>I never viewed berkeley as being above MIT (or most of those on the list actually).</p>
<p>Go Cornell! (Poor Brown isn't even on the list - not being sarcastic...I actually like Brown also lol)</p>
<p>Brown is probably missing because its grad schools leave something to be desired.</p>
<p>UCSD has the top Bio Engineering UGrad program, it's in the top 10 med programs, and I have done almost no research on it (meaning I'm sure I could find more programs in which it excels). It's a hell of a school.</p>
<p>UCSD is clearly one of the most underrated schools in the US (or so I think.)</p>
<p>yea...Duke and dartmouth are missing too</p>