<p>Here's a World Ranking:
World university rankings </p>
<p>A list compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University which is now widely quoted as a measure in the academic world.</p>
<p>Shanghai Jiao Tong's top 50 universities (last year's ranking in brackets):</p>
<p>1 (1) Harvard University USA
2 (3) University Cambridge UK
3 (2) Stanford University USA
4 (4) University California - Berkeley USA
5 (5) Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT) USA
6 (6) California Inst Tech USA
7 (9) Columbia University USA
8 (7) Princeton University USA
9 (10) University Chicago USA
10 (8) University of Oxford UK
11 (11) Yale University USA
12 (12) Cornell University USA
13 (13) University California - San Diego USA <<<<<<
14 (16) University California - Los Angeles USA
15 (15) University Pennsylvania USA
16 (18) University Wisconsin - Madison USA
17 (20) University Washington - Seattle USA
18 (17) University California - San Francisco USA
19 (22) Johns Hopkins University USA
20 (14) Tokyo University Asia/Pac
21 (19) University Michigan - Ann Arbor USA
22 (21) Kyoto University Asia/Pac
23 (23) Imperial Coll London UK
24 (24) University Toronto USA
25 (25) University Illinois - Urbana Champaign USA
26 (25) University Coll London UK
27 (27) Swiss Fed Inst Tech - Zurich Switzerland
28 (28) Washington University - St. Louis USA
29 (32) New York University USA
30 (29) Rockefeller University USA
31 (30) Northwestern University USA
32 (31) Duke University USA
32 (33) University Minnesota - Twin Cities USA
34 (35) University California - Santa Barbara USA
35 (34) University Colorado - Boulder USA
36 (40) University Texas - Austin USA
37 (36) University British Columbia Canada
38 (36) University Texas Southwestern Med Center USA
39 (43) Pennsylvania State University - University Park USA
39 (38) Vanderbilt University USA
41 (42) University California - Davis USA
41 (39) University Utrecht Netherlands
43 (44) Rutgers State University - New Brunswick USA
43 (48) University Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh USA
45 (46) Karolinska Inst Stockholm Sweden
46 (41) University Paris 06 Europe
47 (55) University California - Irvine USA
47 (47) University Edinburgh Europe
47 (57) University Maryland - Coll Park USA</p>
<p>P.S.: I hope your reading this clairesolo ! ;)</p>
<p>Well I dont think the rankings are ONLY for grad school or ONLY for undergrad.....I guess its the study must've been based on the overall standard of the university(including opportunities available at a respective school)........frankly I dont care.......coz UCSD comes at a cool #13......Go Tritons !!</p>
<p>I think Shanghai Jiao Tong's rankings give more weight to science fields and research. That's why UCSD is up there.</p>
<p>Personally, I find THES rankings a better assessment of schools in general. The following are the rankings for the first 50 universities in the world.</p>
<p>2005 2004
rank rank Name
1 1 Harvard University
2 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3 6 Cambridge University
4 5 Oxford University
5 7 Stanford University
6 2 University of California, Berkeley
7 8 Yale University
8 4 California Institute of Technology
9 9 Princeton University
10 27 Ecole Polytechnique
11= 52 Duke University
11= 11 London School of Economics
13 14 Imperial College London
14 23 Cornell University
15 17 Beijing University
16 12 Tokyo University
17= 20 University of California, San Francisco
17= 13 University of Chicago
19 22 Melbourne University
20 19 Columbia University
21 10 ETH Zurich
22 18 National University of Singapore
23 16 Australian National University
24= 30 Ecole Normale Sup</p>
<p>Yeah the THES rankings seem believable......but whats with UT Austin above UCLA n UCSD ......ARE THEY NUTS?????The only field in which UT Austin is competitive enough to be placed ALONGSIDE UCLA N UCSD is engineering.....</p>
<p>btw what's the full form of THES ?
Also I've heard of some rankings by a LONDON UNIVERSITY(UCSD=24,UT Austin=13 i think)..........how credible are these rankings and what are they based on?</p>
<p>A lot of these rankings are very one-sided. It looks like research is a big factor in the rankings, which explains why ucb is so high up. If these rankings are based on sciences/engineering, then it's very feasible that UCSD is close to the top of the list (#11 engineering school, top 10 science school). </p>
<p>I dunno, but it seems to me that the USNWR are based more on liberal arts (HYP at the top and MIT at like 7 or 8). </p>
<p>I guess for the best rankings, you should look at how schools are ranked in YOUR area of interest (for example, I'm BioE and UCSD is top 3 consistently, so I'm happy :) ).</p>
<p>Yeah, the Washington Monthly one was to commemorate those universities which they believed were underappreciated for their services to the country. Totally different methodology than other ranking systems.</p>
<p>I take those rankings perfectly seriously. They measure exactly what they are designed to measure (i.e., a combination of biased, weighted factors), not how good a university is.</p>
<p>SJTU rankings are basically based on science & research, which IMO is very accurate. Have you seen UCSD's R&D stats? Shiet.</p>
<p>THES is more on prestige, which also makes sense for the most part.</p>
<p>Washington Monthly's rankings are based on what universities do for the country. It has nothing to do with prestige or with what school is better to attend. It's simpy about what school produces more good for the nation. What helps the nation more...? The school that really only rich kids can afford to go to? Or the great public schools that (almost) anyone can afford to go. Go figure.</p>
<p>Chill out. UCSD is an awesome school and has pleanty of prestigue and whatnot. Don't get so worked up over rankings :)</p>