Penn 16th in THE World Reputation Rankings

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Pennsylvania
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I really don’t understand how schools like University of Michigan or UCLA or University of Tokyo or Imperial are ranked higher than Penn but oh well…I think the top 10 is pretty accurate other than that Columbia and Caltech should probably switch places. The dominance of Harvard, MIT and Stanford amongst US universities is clear and totally deserved imo. Yale and Princeton follow a few notches below as expected. Penn should be at #11 with Chicago or #12 after Chicago imo.

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/reputation-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank_label/sort_order/asc/cols/rank_only

Top 20:

1 Harvard University

2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology

3 Stanford University

4 University of Cambridge

5 University of Oxford

6 University of California, Berkeley

7 Princeton University

8 Yale University

9 Columbia University

10 California Institute of Technology

11 University of Chicago

12 University of Tokyo

13 University of California, Los Angeles

14 University of Michigan

15 Imperial College London

16 University of Pennsylvania

17 Cornell University

18 Tsinghua University

19 ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

20 University College London

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This survey is focused on academic research reputation, not education quality reputation or reputation of graduates. It is also very Asia and European centric with only 19% of surveys from the United States, and seems to reward the size of institutions such as Cal, Michigan and UCLA.

I am a bit surprised at not seeing Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, or Duke, but that speaks to a continental weighting that is not aligned with the locations of the top research Universities.

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Hopkins, Duke and NU show up between 20 and 30.

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The rankings referenced above are based on a very specific methodology and meant to rank schools based on certain narrow parameters. To list the rankings and discuss them without that context is quite pointless. One very obvious examples of required context: are the rankings for grad or undergrad?