Undergraduate BME and Mathematics Ranks for my Shortlist Schools

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The only international rankings I trust are the Huazhong and QS ones. They rank Duke above these so-called “peer” schools. The Jio Tong ranking is a total sham and I am sure you feel the same way.</p>

<p>According to Huazhong,
Top 100 among American Universities
Duke: #6
Northwestern: #12
Cornell: #14
Johns Hopkins University: #15
Brown: #17
Cal: #21
Michigan: #25</p>

<p>This is the BEST college ranking I have ever seen and the only reason I heard about is because a family friend of a classmate works at the university and showed me the ranking which he mentions was compiled specifically for undergrad.

This so-called “Huazhong ranking” is an EXACT COPY of USNWR’s 2004 ranking. Btw, if you click on any one of the schools, it will bring you to the USNWR site for that school.</p>

<p>Huazhong never claims to rank US universities. It merely provides an information link for the top 100 US universities (according to USNWR in 2004), just as the link it provides to the “Top 100 British Universities in 2003” by Financial Times ([::Links::](<a href=“http://www.hust.edu.cn/english/link/oversea/default.htm]::Links::[/url]”>http://www.hust.edu.cn/english/link/oversea/default.htm)</a>).</p>

<p>ring, you’ve been had. Your family friend didn’t know diddly about university rankings. The “QS World University Rankings” is clearly an OVERALL ranking instead of purely undergraduate education as you claimed. Look at the methodology:</p>

<p>1) 20% is on “Citations per faculty”
2) postgraduate students are included in the “FTE students” count and “international factors”
3) The survey for “Academic peer review” (40% weight) asks each reviewer to pick the top research programs in each category:
<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/methodology/peer_review/[/url]”>http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/methodology/peer_review/&lt;/a&gt; … see "click here to preview Academic Peer Review Survey) … and here’s one of the questions (<a href=“http://research.qsnetwork.com/qs_surveysystem/index.php?viewonly&order=normal&partnerset=0&survey=52&jump_to_section=9):%5B/url%5D”>http://research.qsnetwork.com/qs_surveysystem/index.php?viewonly&order=normal&partnerset=0&survey=52&jump_to_section=9):</a></p>

<p>“Natural Sciences
Please select up to thirty universities you regard as producing the best research in the NATURAL SCIENCES subject area”</p>

<p>and these are the only questions in the survey.</p>