<p>U-M</a>, Ann Arbor score high in recent rankings</p>
<p>QS</a> World University Rankings Results 2010 | Top Universities</p>
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U-M is listed as the top public university in the QS World University Rankings for 2010, and ranked 15th among all colleges on the list.
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<p>another whoring thread about rankings, but a professor interestingly brought it up in class.</p>
<p>thoughts?</p>
<p>Happy to see the Creative Writing program getting the recognition it deserves, too!</p>
<p>The QS Times ranking, although unreliable, will definitely boost Michigan’s reputation in Europe big time.</p>
<p>i was just looking at the QS rankings, and that’s excellent for michigan. it’s ahead of many other great universities. but alexandre, why do you say they’re unreliable?</p>
<p>Because international rankings are usually unreliable. Universities cannot be ranked across boarders. Doing so would be tantamount to comparing apples to water mellons. </p>
<p>Even so, this ranking is filled with question marks. </p>
<p>1) Cal and Stanford should both be ranked higher. </p>
<p>2) France and Germany each have a dozen universities that belong among the top 100 in the World, and yet, France only has 2 in the top 100 and Germany just 5. </p>
<p>3) UCL, although excellent, is not on better than Oxford. </p>
<p>4) UCL and Imperial are both ranked among the top 10 but LSE is ranked #80?</p>
<p>Overall, this ranking favors British universities way too much and has a strong bias for universities in English-speaking countries.</p>
<p>But like I said, Michigan will benefit from its ranking (which I happen to think it fair), particularly in Europe, where the QS rankings are influential and well regarded.</p>
<p>“France and Germany each have a dozen universities that belong among the top 100 in the World”</p>
<p>A dozen each? So a quarter of the top 100 universities world wide are in these two countries?</p>
<p>^ im sure alexandre didn’t mean a dozen = 12 literally.</p>
<p>I would say that 20 of the top 100 universities in the World are in France and Germany. Among the top 100, I would say the US has 40, the UK, France, Germany and Japan each have 10 or so, Canada and Australia each have 5 and the rest of the world has 10 or so.</p>