"Heavy coverage in foreign media" surrounds Yale #2 Global spot in Times' Rankings

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<p>Yale</a> Daily News - Global appeal wins Univ. No. 2 spot</p>

<p>Yale received the #2 spot from the Times Higher Education Supplement - easily the most respected educational publication in Europe.</p>

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<p>"Among the Ivies, Princeton was in sixth place.... Princeton was followed by Columbia University at 11th, the University of Pennsylvania at 14th, Cornell University at 20th and Brown University at 32nd. Dartmouth fell ten places, to 71st overall." </p>

<p>"Other American universities to receive top rankings included the University of Chicago and Caltech, in seventh place, the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, in 10th, Duke, in 13th, Johns Hopkins University, in 15th and Stanford, in 19th."</p>

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<p>well, this may be a minority view, but I don't pay attention to US News, and wouldn't pay attention to this, either....</p>

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<p>Jeff Brenzel didn't seem impressed.
In my opinion Yale is best known in the world, outside of the US, after Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge, but I'm pleasantly surprised that it tied in with Oxbridge, really. Coming from a british source especially.</p>

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<p>I think the rankings are fairly precise given the methodologies used. I don't mean objectively accurate, I just mean they do well in terms of actually measuring what they intended to.</p>