MIT's "Visibility on the Web"

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>Just read about this via Taiwanese media. </p>

<p>Spanish study measures colleges' web presence via Google, Yahoo, MSN Live!, Exalead (why Exalead?), and Google Scholar.</p>

<p>Not super scientific, but which ranking is? =p </p>

<p>Relax! (before a flame war starts, haha)</p>

<p>World</a> Universities' ranking on the Web: Contact Us</p>

<p>World</a> Universities' ranking on the Web: top 6000 World Ranking</p>

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<p>WOW!
I think MIT’s #1 ranking is due to a huge contribution done by its blogs.</p>

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<p>Hardly. Besides the sheer scientific output, a good portion of it is because of the accessibility of its course materials to the public, through OCW, YouTube, etc.</p>

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<p>I’m not surprised. OpenCourseWare really is awesome and it’s virtually impossible not to find something interesting when you visit the home page. Personally, I love how the color scheme changes daily, to ‘call attention to each new spotlight.’</p>

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<p>Very true indeed… BTW doesn’t MIT have like a tv channel?</p>

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<p>MIT is very big into the “freedom of information” thing. The blogs are only one small part of that- there’s a youtube channel, an online TV channel (TechTV), the blogs, OCW…I know the blogs are the most obvious web presence to a lot of readers on this site, but remember that admissions is only a small part of a large university such as MIT.</p>

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<p>Wasn’t the GNU project started at MIT?</p>

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<p>heck yeahhh, MIT!!!
I actually haven’t heard too much about TechTV…I’ll have to check it out.</p>