The 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)

Graduate School
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<p>Officially released today!!! </p>

<p>Academic</a> Ranking of World Universities (ARWU)</p>

<p>Enjoy!~ :)</p>

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<p>With more mistakes… not cool.</p>

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<p>Still not wonderful but better than Forbes.</p>

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<p>As usual, the inclusion and relatively high ranks of schools like UCSF, Rockefeller, and UT Southwestern says much about the focus of the ARWU ranking. This is a nice measure of scientific output, perhaps, but it’s not much good beyond that. ARWU adjusts the Nature and Science publication factor for schools focused on the humanities and social sciences like LSE, for example, but they are nevertheless harmed by lacking large numbers of Fields medalists and Nobel laureates in the sciences. </p>

<p>Given this board’s emphasis on undergraduate education, one must also consider research output versus undergraduate teaching. While not mutually exclusive, some universities excel much more at one than the other. Dartmouth is one notable example; I think few would choose Oregon State over Dartmouth, regardless of its higher ARWU rank. The other obvious example, of course, is the inclusion of graduate-only universities in the ranking.</p>

<p>As a measure of academic quality, I’d be very hesitant to draw any conclusions from it. On a positive note, however, it may be a good measure of “international prestige.”</p>

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<p>Whisked off to CC Neverland of course…</p>

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Maybe because internationals realize the value of a STEM education.</p>

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<p>Wow this list makes even US News look good.</p>

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<p>Chiao-Tung University ahead of Duke, Johns Hopkins, and Rice in engineering and computer science? Who woulda thunk? Go Chiao-Tung!</p>

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<p>Great line, UCB! Doesn’t ARWU belong in the world of fantasy? Created by myopic pseudo-scientists, it is own little world for the Peter Pan, Tinker Bell, and the Lost Boys of academia.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.arwu.org/FieldENG2010.jsp[/url]”>http://www.arwu.org/FieldENG2010.jsp&lt;/a&gt; caltech seems awfully low especially behind schools such as UCSB</p>

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<p>So Xiggi–you hate everything else–what do you suggest as a replacement?</p>

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<p>If he’s anything like me, none for universities. It’s hard enough comparing departments to departments (given all the sub-disciplines in each respective one)–to try and compare entire universities with one another is near impossible given the lack of homogeneous structure of schools.</p>

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<p>^^ Probably something that incorporates LACs with research universities and has HMC & CMC comfortably above Smith.</p>

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<p>Does anyone else see a sidebar that says “Sites of Interest” and then gives a bunch of spammy links on the AWRU website? Makes these rankings seem pretty legit to me :D</p>

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<p>Could someone list the top 20 schools?, for some reason the link isn’t working for me.</p>

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<p>I have to translate them from a Chinese newspaper:</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Univ. of Washington</li>
<li>UCSF</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins Univ.</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>Univ. of London – ? College </li>
<li>Univ. of Tokyo</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Swiss Ins. of Tech</li>
<li> Univ. of London – Empire College?</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>Toronto</li>
<li>Univ. of Kyoto</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
</ol>

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<p>ewho u need to know ur UK colleges =P and yes, this is indeed a decent measure of international prestige, at least for China/HK (I’m from HK)</p>

<ol>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Stanford</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Cal</li>
<li>Cambridge</li>
<li>Caltech</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>Chicago</li>
<li>Oxford</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Penn</li>
<li>UCSD</li>
<li>Univ. of Washington</li>
<li>UCSF</li>
<li>Johns Hopkins Univ.</li>
<li>Wisconsin</li>
<li>University College London (UCL)</li>
<li>Univ. of Tokyo</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>Swiss Ins. of Tech</li>
<li>The Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine</li>
<li>Illinois</li>
<li>Toronto</li>
<li>Univ. of Kyoto</li>
<li>Minnesota</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Northwestern</li>
</ol>

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<p>Wow.</p>

<p>My brother and I always considered Berkeley/Stanford on the west coast, MIT/Harvard on the east coast as the 4 horsemen of world class higher education in the US.</p>

<p>The list would explain why some of his Chinese colleagues were impressed with his doctorate from Berkeley.</p>

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3 of the 4 criteria in engineering are biased towards being large. But I wouldn’t remove them – being large is beneficial in engineering. But there should be a per capita criteria like the general ranking has in order to add some correction for size.</p>