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Ray,
SJTU is in Shanghai, only 175 km from Hangzhou… so ring wasn’t far off.</p>
<p>SJTU ranks Duke a lowly #32 overall, behind UDub(17), Wisconsin(17), UIUC(26) and Minnesota(28), so you don’t want to go there. Duke ranks even lower in Science/Math (52-76) and Engineering (51-75) so you certainly don’t want to go there.</p>
<p>QS ranks Duke a lofty #13 overall (tied with JHU), behind Chicago(8), Columbia(10) and Penn(11), but ahead of Cornell(15), Stanford(17) and Michigan (18).</p>
<p>However, you don’t want to go there for Natural Science/Math as Duke ranks a lowly #79, behind Penn State(59) and Purdue(67).</p>
<p>Or Technology. Duke is outside the Top 100.</p>
<p>Duke fares better in Social Sciences (#26), barely behind Cornell(17), Michigan(20), Penn(22) and NYU(23);</p>
<p>And in Art/Humanities: Duke at #21 is behind Cornell(14), NYU(15) and Michigan(19)</p>
<p>In Life Sciences/Biomedicine: Duke(#21) is behind UCSD(9), UCLA(11), Cornell(18) and Columbia(20).</p>
<p>The QS ranking says one should go to UCB which is 2nd ranked in most of these fields and no worse than #4.</p>