Newsweek ranks the World's Top 100 Global Universities

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<p>UT-Austin is even much better than UCLA.</p>

<p>Check rabking of Engineering, Law, and Business school.</p>

<p>I don't think Ucla is underratted</p>

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<p>anyone think U of Chicago is underrated. gosh, the place is as good as probably Columbia, yet it's below UCLA and Michigan! look, michigan and ucla are 2 fine public schools, but they cannot match the academic powerhouse that is chicago. chicago churns out more phds than any other school in America (2nd is MIT).</p>

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<p>This ranking is a pile of steaming horseflop.</p>

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<p>These rankings are the closest you are going to get to how it really is. I love them. I wouldn't change a thing in the top 40:</p>

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<p>Oh please, what a load of nonsense. (Yawn...)</p>

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<p>Looking at it now, I don't like UCSF or Michigan so high, but that's just me. Can't argue with the rest.</p>

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<p>... i don't get how you can compare global universities.. when the edu system of each country is so different...</p>

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<p>Princeton looks way out of place. It belongs in the top 10. UCSF is just a Medical school, so it doesn't make much sense. Otherwise, the ranking seems ok. Remember that this is a ranking of universities based on global presence. In other words, quality of faculty, research and graduate programs. I don't understand why so many object to Michigan's ranking. Its Business, Engineering, Law, Medical and Public Affairs programs are all ranked among the top 10. All of its individual departments are ranked among the top 15, many are ranked among the top 10 (including Economics, Geology, Math and History) and several are ranked among the top 3 (including Anthropology, Political Science, Psychology and Sociology). It terms of research spending, at $800,000,000, Michigan has one of the 3 largest research budgets on Earth. I can see how some would argue against a ranking that has Michigan ranked among the top 10 undergraduate institutions in the World, but for overall academics and global impact, Michigan makes a very strong case.</p>

<p>y0123, the ranking is not based in quality of education, which, as you point out, would be impossible to measure because each system is different. The ranking tries to establish which universities have the largest impact on research globaly.</p>

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<p>This is nitpicking: But in what current productivity or reputation ranking is Michigan No. 10 in econ? By common agreement the top 9 (not necessarily in order) are Harvard, MIT, Chicago, Princeton, Stanford, Penn, Northwestern, Yale, and Berkeley. </p>

<p>Then, NYU, Columbia, UCLA, or Minnesota are plausibly in the next group but not Michigan. So, top 15? Possible, though not certain. Top 10? No. This also matches what we observe in terms of grad admission and where top people accept or reject job offers.</p>

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<p>US News Grad ranking has Michigan, Wisconsin and Columbia tied at #11; NYU came in as #15.</p>

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<p>US News Graduate Ranking for economics:</p>

<h1>11 - Columbia, UCLA, Michigan, Wisconsin</h1>

<h1>15 - NYU, Minnesota</h1>

<p>You got most of them right ... except for Michigan.</p>

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<p>Cornell is on there, so I am happy!</p>

<p>Brown and Dartmouth are the only two ivies that aren't on the list. That is crazy.</p>

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<p>Darmouth isn't because it's a college, not a university. It's kind of interesting that Brown isn't, however.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure how Duke ranks ahead of Columbia and Chicago since this ranking encompasses both graduate schools and undergrad...</p>

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<p>What?!eafiojqo:!?</p>

<p>Princeton At 15 ?qleafn </p>

<p>Why!</p>

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<p>brown not on there O.o whats at 56 then...</p>

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<p>TheThoughtProcess, that particular ranking has a very heavy Medical/Life/Biotech sciences lean. Duke is very strong in Medicine, Biomedical Engineering and Biology. Look at UCSF. It is basically just a medical school (admitedly a great one) and it managed to make the top 10.</p>

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<p>Ah, US News... I recommend you look at EconPhD.net which gives a somewhat different spin on the faculty ratings. Ditto for any of the other published articles which focus on citations, etc. U Michigan's total is around 16th worldwide. Correcting for size (averaging over the top 15 professors) puts them around 26. Whatever you think the problems of US News for undergrad, their grad rankings are often more problematic. Not that I disagree with Alexandre's overall point. Michigan is a great university, with terrific resources overall.</p>

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<p>Not quite old, there are published articles and citations...and then there are PUBLISHED ARTICLES and CITATIONS! The ranking you are refering to does not consider the impact or significance of those pubications and citations. That is not to say the ranking isn't legitimate. There are many criteria that can be used to rank programs, and faculty research output is certainly very important. But there are some rankings that's place Michigan as high as #8 in the US and others as low as #15 in the US (when I said Michigan's Econ department was ranked around #10, I meant in the US, not globaly). At any rate, whether an Econ department is ranked #10 or #15 hardly matters. The number of World Class Econ departments in the US far exceeds 15. I have not seen any overall Econ ranking that has Michigan as low as #26 though.</p>

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<p>NUS ranked 36th? -.-</p>

<p>It's medical school may qualify as a top 20 internationally, but nothing else in that school (other than perhaps Law) is top tier. The FASS (Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences), Business school, Engineering School are all very ordinary institutions. </p>

<p>I think it's ranked so highly largely because it attracts a LOT of ASEAN ppl. But that's just wrong. The quality of the student body in general is just not there, even taking the foreigners into account.</p>

<p>Regionally, NUS is a powerhouse. Internationally/Globally, it has a long way to go before it can claim to surpass places like NYU and so many other US universities.</p>