<p>Perhaps this is old news, but since I just saw it I thought I would post it. Just what is needed, another university ranking.</p>
<p>World's</a> Best Universities: Top 400 - US News and World Report</p>
<p>It confirms why rankings are should be taken with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>Interesting the extent to which some high-school-disfavored places like Hopkins and Michigan significantly outrank their US rankings on the methodology used for this. Among U.S. universities, Hopkins is 9th, and Michigan 13th. Stanford is 12th. Berkeley is a looong way down, which is surprising, and so is Brown, which is less surprising because it rarely shows well in these international comparisons. McGill and Toronto ought to get some deserved attention from this – McGill outranks all U.S. publics, and Toronto all but Michigan.</p>
<p>It should certainly please the U of C people, since Chicago outranks Princeton, Columbia, and both tech (CIT,MIT) schools on this list.
Like all rankiings, it’s all in the methodology, and in who replies, and I have no interest in parsing that.</p>
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This is not all that unusual, The “English” version did the same thing.
[Times</a> Higher Education](<a href=“Times Higher Education home | Times Higher Education (THE)”>World University Rankings | Times Higher Education (THE))</p>
<p>As did an Asian version: [THE</a> - QS World University Rankings 2009 - top universities | Top Universities](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results]THE”>http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results)</p>
<p>^^^^
I don’t understand and don’t feel like reading. These things look uncannily similar to be three separate studies. Are these based on different data or the same data? It looks like they’re all affiliated with this QS thing. </p>
<p>And I don’t really care, I have nothing to do with UofC or any of the other schools listed at the very top of these things.</p>
<p>Edit - Guess what? I lied. I looked up the methodology. To me, the most important columns are the first two, and I would give very little credence to the criteria from the last two columns. Note I said “for me.” I think there are far too many factors other than quality going into the proportion of international staff or international students.</p>
<p>They are all the same survey/ranking.</p>
<p>Here’s one that ranks Princeton just ahead of Chicago, and puts UCB at #4. It is 39 in the Times and USNWR poll. </p>
<p>[ARWU</a> 2009](<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp]ARWU”>http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp)</p>
<p>JHS: They do indeed appear to be the same (with the exception of ARWU). Although I may have missed it, I did not notice that USNWR made mention of that fact.</p>