QS World University Rankings 2012

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<p>QS</a> World University Rankings - Topuniversities</p>

<p>Top 100 World Universities – 2012</p>

<p>1 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) United States
2 University of Cambridge United Kingdom
3 Harvard University United States
4 UCL (University College London) United Kingdom
5 University of Oxford United Kingdom
6 Imperial College London United Kingdom
7 Yale University United States
8 University of Chicago United States
9 Princeton University United States
10 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) United States
11 Columbia University United States
12 University of Pennsylvania United States
13 ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Switzerland
14 Cornell University United States
15 Stanford University United States
16 Johns Hopkins University United States
17 University of Michigan United States
18 McGill University Canada
19 University of Toronto Canada
20 Duke University United States</p>

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<p>Whenever I see MIT compared to or exceeding Harvard, I always think back to when Harvard, MIT, and IBM’s Watson competed in Jeopardy. The results?</p>

<p>Watson: $53,601
Harvard: $42,399
MIT: $100</p>

<p>(Source: <a href=“http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/jeopardy-sloan-watson.html[/url]”>http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/jeopardy-sloan-watson.html&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>As arguably the best institution for engineering/technology, MIT gets a lot of positive publicity and credibility. But it doesn’t even touch Harvard, and I would argue that it’s quite an overrated institution. I don’t really get why QS would rank it at the top.</p>

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<p>^Peers disagree with you.</p>

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<p>The quality of MIT students is also higher. MIT has a much narrower interquartile range. Harvard’s 25th percentiles are low, probably due to legacy admits.</p>

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<p>i would totally agree with that. A neighbor was headed to trinity in Connecticut took a gap year and ended up a Harvard because of mega legacy connections. Now she works as an administrative assistant. Go Harvard.</p>

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<p>Too many versions, QS, USNEWS, Forbes, Times THE magazine, Shanghai Jiaotong (ARWU), etc.</p>

<p>Why by reputation, huge difference exits between last year’s 5-way tied USNEWS universities (CalTech, Upenn, Chicago, MIT, Stanford)?
[Top</a> Universities by Reputation 2012](<a href=“http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/reputation-rankings.html]Top”>World Reputation Rankings 2012 | Times Higher Education (THE))</p>

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<p>[Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities - 2012| Top 500 universities | Shanghai Ranking - 2012 | World University Ranking - 2012](<a href=“http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html]Academic”>http://www.shanghairanking.com/ARWU2012.html)</p>

<p>Chicago, #9</p>

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<p>The top few global schools only ever chop and change amongst themselves. The ‘set’ is pretty set.</p>

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<p>Just keep in mind that different schools will put greater emphasis on the rankings that rank them the highest. </p>

<p>I go to Cal-Berkeley and they only use one set of rankings (Shanghai) to justify how “good” the school is. </p>

<p>Instead of looking at just one ranking, look for consistency among all the different ranking.</p>