<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Imperial College</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>University of Chicago</li>
<li>University College London</li>
<li>MIT</li>
</ol>
<p>I'm assuming the ranks were done on some sort of research/research quality metric.</p>
<p>I personally don't take stock in rankings-- any rankings-- though I do find it amusing that Chicago seems to place between 5 and 15 in almost every single rank I've seen given any criteria. (Including the Princeton Review "ranks," US News universities, US News grad schools, Washington Monthly, Gourman, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.) I guess we're an all-around consistent school!</p>
<p>it's always irritating to see these things because it makes me even more sad that people don't seem to be able to recognize that chicago's actually a REALLY GOOD SCHOOL! they go on and on about the ivy league...but Chicago's just as good, and better in some ways too!</p>
<p>Actually, it's</p>
<ol>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
</ol>
<p>THES</a> - QS World University Rankings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</p>
<p>And the variation from year to year in those rankings is an obvious testament to its inaccuracy. Stanford went from 6th last year to 19th this year. Laughable.</p>
<p>If we need to inflate our egos any more, we can always play count the nobel laureates...</p>
<p>;-)</p>
<p>not to mention the 4 british universities in the top 10...</p>
<p>not to mention that my HUM teacher speaks greenlandic and eskimo... you won't find that anywhere else!</p>
<p>What is Imperial College and why have I never heard of it?</p>
<p>JHS -- "Imperial College" is actually the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, one of the UK's top science and technology schools, located in the Kensington neighbourhood of London. For example, The Times ranks it as 11th in the UK for maths, tied with the University of Edinburgh. It's third overall in The Times' league tables. Imperial is thought to produce a lot of high-quality UK researchers, scientists and academics.</p>
<p>Thanks. You learn something every day.</p>
<p>"not to mention the 4 british universities in the top 10..."</p>
<p>care to explain?</p>
<p>This ranking is trash, although I am sure it makes people in England feel good about themselves. There is no way in UCL or Imperial deserve the kinds of positions they are given. I also like how UCL, which is but one school amongst many in the University of London and by no means the most famous one, cough LSE cough London Business School cough, gets treated as if it were its own entity rather than a single gem in a middling mega-university.</p>
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"not to mention the 4 british universities in the top 10..."</p>
<p>care to explain?
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<p>Other than Oxford and Cambridge, no other British university even approaches the quality of the top 10 institutions in the United States.</p>
<p>Since we're talking about universities and not colleges, I can actually use the Nobel Prize argument. Imperial College London has 14 Nobel Prize affiliations and it's ranked the 5th best university. By no means is the quality of a university's research determined by Nobel Prizes alone, but comparing 82 (Chicago and Columbia) to 14, and having the 14 come out on top in both cases... come on. </p>
<p>Also, there's a reason why ICL and UCL aren't ranked that high in the Shanghai-Jiaotong rankings (<a href="http://www.arwu.org/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.arwu.org/rank/2007/ARWU2007_Top100.htm</a>)</p>