<p>like i asked before... why the hell do you people spend so much time answering? who the hell cares about that, its a friggin site. just forget it. you're all going to big colleges, let it go, ffs.</p>
<p>I don't know about the order or maybe even the validity of some on the list. UCSD above U-Penn??!</p>
<p>flopsy, here is news release from UCLA: <a href="http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2006/US%20News%20Graduate%20Rankings.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/news/2006/US%20News%20Graduate%20Rankings.html</a> and news release from UCSD: <a href="http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/USNewsGrad06.asp%5B/url%5D">http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/awards/USNewsGrad06.asp</a></p>
<p>Saratov State University, an institution of over 28,000 students nestled along Russia's Volga River, earned top honors Wednesday in an annual event that could fairly be called the Olympics of undergraduate computer science. </p>
<p>Teams from 83 colleges descended on San Antonio, Tex., this week for the event, the Association for Computing Machinery's 30th annual International Collegiate Programming Contest. The grueling competition asked three-student teams to solve 10 complex computing problems in just five hours. </p>
<p>For over a decade after its inception, the contest was dominated by teams from the United States. But students from around the world now match wits at the event, and American teams' fortunes have faded. Over the past 10 years, squads from Asia, Australia, and Eastern Europe have taken turns climbing to the top of the programming heap. Last year's competition, held in Shanghai, was won by the local favorites, a team from Shanghai Jiaotong University. </p>
<p>Now you have heard of it.</p>
<p>Where is William and Mary?!?!
jeez</p>
<p>Shanghai Jiatong University</p>
<p>one of the best universities in China.</p>
<p>why do you think that is. (I'm talking about Toronto) I'm from Canada and it is not top 2 in our country.</p>
<p>To get a more realistic idea of where colleges rate among students that go there check out THE U website and DVDs. They give you a better look than any tour could, and they aren't affiliated with the schools, so it's really honest information!</p>
<p>UCSD gets a place in the top 15 and not NYU? NYU is superior in many programs other than science. And look at the methodology. They don't specifically name awards/citations in humanities (Pulitzer, Nobel Prize in Lit, whatever) as a criteria, only science. This ranking's completely science-biased. It gives higher points for schools that focus more on science :(</p>
<p>ihateCA.....NYU does not have nearly has many highly ranked programs as UCSD. If you look at the sheer number of highly ranked top 10 and top 20 programs there is not even a comparison. nyu however is very good at what they are good at such as film and law school. In almost every overall university ranking ive ever seen, UCSD is ranked higher than NYU, and if you look at top ranked programs, ucsd has significantly more top 10's and top 20's than NYU. i know you hate ca and its schools, but come on lets be realistic here. UCSD has 10 nobel laureates on its faculty and has won something like 16 or 17 nobels in its short 40 something year history.</p>
<p>I think this is a better list nationally: <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/natudoc/tier1/t1natudoc_brief.php</a>
Anyone going to UGA? Go dawgs!</p>
<p>what about IIT, probably mentioned already but they come out with CRAZY engineers..undergrads getting jobs from MS starting at 100k as a soon as they graduate</p>
<p>ucchris-Just because someone won a Nobel Prize in a subject, that doesn't mean that they'll necessarily be good teachers. I would say that people who are mediocre at something make better teachers because they do a little more hand-holding than geniuses. Geniuses make really bad teachers.</p>
<p>That is an absurd statement. Mediocre people are just as likely to be poor teachers too. One has little to do with the other. Unfortunately it is hard to rank teaching.</p>
<p>I think this rank is totally tihsllub. Just have a look at its criteria:</p>
<p>Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals - 10%
Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals - 20%
Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories - 20%
Articles published in Nature and Science - 10%
Articles in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index - 20%
Academic performance with respect to the size of an institution - 10%</p>
<p>HELLO?! This is NOT how you evaluate a university OKAY?
This is the TOP500 RESEARCH INSTITUIONS I reckon.</p>
<p>...well obviously if University of Nebraska and University of Kentucky are ranked far ahead of Georgetown...</p>
<p>Maybe if you are interested in science you would want to look elsewhere than Gtown. After all it is mostly known for politics and a few liberal arts subjects. That's all.</p>
<p>And business. You forgot business for Gtown.</p>
<p>Hi! I was wondering what do you know about Harvard and their grading system, do you know anything? Please reply as soon as possible!!!</p>
<p>I've heard of Shianghai Jiao Tong U, but it's no Peking or Tsinghua University (which are better schools in China). Besides, I don't know how I feel about a ranking that comes from a school that itself is not on the top of the list. Then again, maybe they've got to do something like this to increase their visiblity and gain publicity...you don't see heavyweight research institutions like Harvard, MIT, or Yale releasing top 500 world university rankings. Oh, and this should be a "research university" ranking, since that's what it's measuring (not overall undergraduate educational quality).</p>