Umich ranked 21st in new world rankings......

[bleeble_blabble]

<p>What I find most unusual about this ranking by Jiao Tong University in Shanghai is how schools like University of Washington - Seattle is ranked higher than Umich and how Rockefeller University whom I never knew existed is ranked above of Duke. The top 25........</p>

<p>1.Harvard Univ
2.Univ Cambridge
3.Stanford Univ
4.Univ California - Berkeley
5.Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT)
6.California Inst Tech
7.Columbia Univ
8.Princeton Univ
9.Univ Chicago
10.Univ Oxford
11.Yale Univ
12.Cornell Univ
13.Univ California - San Diego
14.Univ California - Los Angeles
15.Univ Pennsylvania
16.Univ Wisconsin - Madison
17.Univ Washington - Seattle
18.Univ California - San Francisco
19.Tokyo Univ
20.Johns Hopkins Univ
21.Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor
22.Kyoto Univ
23.Imperial Coll London
24.Univ Toronto
25.Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign</p>

<p><a href="http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006_Top100.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

[barrons]

<p>Washington has a very strong medical/bio research area. Probably as good as Illinois if it were in the Big 10. Underrated school overall.</p>