<p>“No intelligent human being even considers them.”</p>
<p>I find that a very extreme word choice for one and personally believe that their methodology is not perfect, but no worse than US news can be. It’s all a matter of opinion.</p>
<p>I have lived in 5 different places in 3 different countries and have friends going to schools (including what many what call top schools) everywhere from Asia to Europe to North America (I am not international in college though). And they place stock in international rankings, and… they ARE intelligent human beings (I’m sorry that comment was insulting).</p>
<p>Fact of the matter is, an international student would like to know where his country’s schools place in regards to the rest of the world, and they give the best judge to this. And another fact is that the world is becoming more international, so just having rankings for the US will not suffice in the longer run.</p>