World's Best....?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Has anyone else seen the list that USNews just released? It's their list of the top 400 colleges in the world, and it was posted online on June 18. Here's a list of where the US colleges fall in the top 100:</p>

<p>US Rank/International Rank</p>

<p>1/1 Harvard
2/2 Yale
3/5 Cal Tech
5/8 UChicago
6/9 MIT
7/10 Columbia
8/11 UPenn
9/12 Princeton
10/13 Duke
11/13 Johns Hopkins
12/15 Cornell
13/17 Stanford
14/18 U of Michigan
15/21 Carnegie Mellon
16/27 Brown
17/30 UCLA
18/33 Northwestern
19/36 UC-Berkeley
20/40 NYU
21/46 Boston U
22/54 Dartmouth
23/55 U of Wisconsin
24/58 UC San Diego
25/59 U of Washington
26/60 Washington U
27/62 Emory
28/70 U of Texas
29/71 U of Illinois
30/78 Rice
31/83 GA Tech
32/87 U of Minnesota
33/89 UC-Davis
34/90 Case Western
35/96 U of Virginia
36/97 Pitt
37/98 UC-Santa Barbara
38/99 Purdue</p>

<p>Vanderbilt, UNC, USC, Penn State, and Georgetown all are in the next 10. What's up with these rankings? Why is UT-Austin number 28 in the US here, and number 40 something in the US Rankings? Or to use my own school, Minnesota, why is it ranked 32 here and 61 in the US rankings? Is this a foreshadowing of what we might expect to see in the new US rankings, or is it so different only because of drastically different criteria? You'd think if they were going to continue to us the term "best," they could at least be consistent...</p>

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<p>do you have a link to the ranking?</p>

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<p>Yep, sorry about that. I kept telling myself “post the link,” but I have failed =( </p>

<p>[World’s</a> Best Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.usnews.com/sections/education/worlds-best-colleges/index.html]World’s”>http://www.usnews.com/sections/education/worlds-best-colleges/index.html)</p>

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<p>Yeah, that world rankings looks a little bogus. I think this world ranking is a little more accurate: [url=<a href=“http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_A(EN).htm]ARWU2008[/url”>http://www.arwu.org/rank2008/ARWU2008_A(EN).htm]ARWU2008[/url</a>]</p>

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<p>You should visit the actual source; US News is a parasite. Check out [QS</a> Top Universities - Official home of the THE - QS World University Rankings](<a href=“http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/]QS”>http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/)</p>

<p>I like this ranking more than USNWR. It benefits larger, research-heavy universities, which explains the state school advantage.</p>

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<p>there’s so many rankings out there… lol.</p>