QS 2026 ranking out

[Anonymous]

https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition

[Anonymous]

Feel better?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition

Tier 1 should be top 10 - Crème de le crème: MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech
Tier 2 top 20 - Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell, UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Others

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition

The methodology is not superior to US News as QS rankings are focused on graduate schools and research citations, not on undergraduate schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition

Americans don’t care how other countries and international types “rank” American graduate schools. Or how the UK inflates the rankings of their (inferior, and much easier admit) schools in an effort to make themselves feel relevant…

[Anonymous]

Who cares? Looking only at undergrads now- could care less about largest research.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Looking only at undergrads now- could care less about largest research.

Plus grad school is about the specific subject, not the university as a whole. Duh.

[Anonymous]

World has moved on since the days of HYP …. Some old fogies haven’t woken up to the new reality.

[Anonymous]

Would be great to see rankings only based on Research and Discovery and Employability & Outcomes.

Learning Experience I guess could be included, but not sure how much anyone cares about Sustainability and Global Engagement.

[Anonymous]

What's odd is that for the most part the top 20 ranked schools have very strong Employer Reputation and employment outcomes...except CalTech which has a terrible Employment Outcomes score.

Wonder why the disconnect there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's odd is that for the most part the top 20 ranked schools have very strong Employer Reputation and employment outcomes...except CalTech which has a terrible Employment Outcomes score.

Wonder why the disconnect there.

Caltech student body isn't filled with sellouts who want to use their skills for defense tech and hedge funds, but they go to Caltech to become researchers. Early career outcomes are low because they need their PhDs which pay 30-50k.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What's odd is that for the most part the top 20 ranked schools have very strong Employer Reputation and employment outcomes...except CalTech which has a terrible Employment Outcomes score.

Wonder why the disconnect there.

Caltech student body isn't filled with sellouts who want to use their skills for defense tech and hedge funds, but they go to Caltech to become researchers. Early career outcomes are low because they need their PhDs which pay 30-50k.

I doubt that's the reason because they don't count kids going into graduate programs against these rankings.

[Anonymous]

Why is Georgetown so low? I think of it as an Ivy-plus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is Georgetown so low? I think of it as an Ivy-plus.

50% of the ranking is research output.

30% is Employer reputation and employment outcomes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition

The methodology is not superior to US News as QS rankings are focused on graduate schools and research citations, not on undergraduate schools.

But they are rankings of universities, not of undergrad programs.