So all of you who wanted to see the rankings besides US News…here you go. (BTW, I stole this link from the UIUC board.)
<a href=“http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/top500list.htm[/url]”>http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/top500list.htm</a>
<p>Uh, this ranking seems kind of biased towards Harvard. It gets a score of 100, while number two - Stanford - gets a 77. By number 8, Oxford, it's down to 61. That's weird.</p>
<p>Clearly it's basing the rankings almost entirely on graduate research - University of Washington above Duke? And Rockefeller doesn't even have a significant undergraduate program. All of the foreign rankings seem to be like this...</p>
<p>These ranking are based on Nobel Prize winners and research output..., which is what matters the most.</p>
<p>Not if you are an undergraduate student - otherwise people would never go to LACs. Moreover, what about Law and Business schools? Also, would you say that CUNY NYC, which has quite a few Nobel Prize winners and Rhodes scholars, is on the same level as other Ivy League schools?</p>
<p>Their methodology is described here: <a href="http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/Methodology.htm%5B/url%5D">http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2004/Methodology.htm</a></p>
<p>They appear to take into account mostly alumni prizes, publications, awards, and citations, with 10% of the calculation involving "academic performance with respect to the size of an institution". Very research- and output-heavy, without focus on the quality of the educational experience.</p>
<p>LOL I don't believe it at all. Santa Barbara, Boulder, and Arizona above Brown? Sorry, but that just doesn't work. Ever.</p>
<p>The sjtu ranking is heavily biased towards Science subjects and totally ignored humanities. It's 100% number driven based on the institution's research output.</p>