<p>They don’t even include AmeriCorps in the ranking. It only looks at Science and Engineering PhD and members of the National Academy of Sciences (this sooo heavily favors Cal and UCSD). What about Social Science PhDs?? This should have also been considered.</p>
<p>Nice ranking, but it’s still very flawed. Half of the top 10 schools are based in California!!</p>
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Social Science PhDs don’t add anything of value to my life. I want another iPhone. I don’t care for random factoids and trivias.</p>
<p>Dartmouth puts more money into research than Brown and Princeton according to the rank.</p>
<p>I find it remarkable that JHU could be spending $1.5 billion per year on research. With something like 1000 full-time faculty, that means on average each one of them is managing well over a million dollars in research funds per year. That is very impressive but I think there most be a point of diminishing returns, beyond which more is not better. There’s a lot of work, including lots of distracting administrivia, in managing these projects. If you are a student in some field (like CS) where this level of funding could create nice opportunities for you, it’s important to visit the school to find out what the atmosphere and pay-off is like for student participants.</p>
<p>middsmith, social science programs evaluate programs and can influence government policy. I don’t know how that is “useless.”</p>
<p>Normalization of data should only be employed when results reasonably scale. Research dollars don’t…you either have a national lab or nuclear reactor on campus or you don’t, you either have enough resources to field a DARPA challange team or you don’t…</p>
<p>I thought middsmith was being sarcastic. No? Personally, I’ve already got my iTouch and don’t need another one. I want better content. Bring on the humanities Ph.D.s and arts funding. Ratchet up the music genome project.</p>
<p>Yeah, I get what rogracer is saying. We’re unlikely to see too many LACs and small unis fielding DARPA challenge teams. Though I’m not sure DARPA challenge problems are the best models for university arts & science research. It does not take a national lab to introduce innovations like behavioral economics that change the way people think about the world. Of course, it’s hard to measure the value of that kind of work.</p>
<p>“I want another iPhone.”</p>
<p>What are you going to do with one more iPhone? What you need is a writing-intensive humanities course.</p>
<p>^^ What I meant was another ground breaking Jesus-phone/mp3 device/pacemaker whatever. And you’re right, I need a writing-intensive course since I have so much trouble getting my point out. ;-)</p>