Cwur: World university rankings 2012

Graduate School
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<p>CWUR 2012 PRESS RELEASE</p>

<p>Sunday, 01 July 2012</p>

<p>The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) released today its 2012 ranking of the top 100 degree-granting institutions of higher education.</p>

<p>The top 10 universities are: Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Caltech, Princeton, Oxford, Yale, Columbia, and Berkeley.</p>

<p>The distribution of top 100 institutions among countries is as follows: USA (58), England (7), France (5), Japan (5), Israel (4), Switzerland (4), Canada (3), Germany (3), Australia (2), Netherlands (2), Denmark (1), Finland (1), Italy (1), Norway (1), Scotland (1), South Korea (1), and Sweden (1).</p>

<p>About the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR): In addition to providing consultation for governments and universities, the Center for World University Rankings uses the following seven indicators to rank the world's top 100 universities: 1) quality of faculty, 2) publications in the top journals, 3) highly-influential research, 4) citations, 5) patents, 6) academic training of students, and 7) professional future of alumni. The aim of the ranking is to measure the quality of education and training of students as well as the prestige of the faculty and the quality of their research.</p>

<p>Link: Center</a> for World University Rankings</p>

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<p>You forgot to mention OSU in your post</p>

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<p>^^ Thanks for the reminder, barrk123!!! :p</p>

<p>TOSU is ranked #38 in the nation and #52 in the whole world!!! </p>

<p>Go Bucks!!! :)</p>

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<p>You’re welcome</p>

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<p>Does anyone know anything about CWUR? Their website looks so amateurish.</p>

<p>Also, are these grad school or undergrad rankings? I believe UCSF (#24) offers only graduate programs.</p>

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<p>57-59 shows how these rankings are awful.</p>

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<p>Here’s the methodology: <a href=“http://cwur.org/preprint.pdf[/url]”>http://cwur.org/preprint.pdf&lt;/a&gt;

What is your criticism of the methodology? That the results do not match your preconceptions?</p>

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<p>Interesting stuff…can someone tell me how Rockefeller University keeps beating Duke and Northwestern in every international ranking? I’ve never heard of this place before.</p>

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<p>[The</a> Rockefeller University](<a href=“http://www.rockefeller.edu/]The”>http://www.rockefeller.edu/)</p>

<p>There you go.</p>

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<p>The methodology is OK and there is some attempt to adjust the algorithms for size of school but not all size dependent factors are accounted for. </p>

<p>But WTH it’s something that has a mathematical basis and generally I think they did allright.</p>

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<p>I have never heard about this ranking except ARWU [Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities | ARWU | First World University Ranking | Shanghai Ranking](<a href=“http://www.shanghairanking.com%5DAcademic”>http://www.shanghairanking.com) published by CWCU</p>

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<p>It is my conviction that PhDs.org is a far superior source for figuring out which PhD program is best for you.</p>