Aggregate Global ranking of North American Universities
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Anonymous
They know UVA is a Ddong Tong! |
Anonymous
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I have responded more than once in this thread ("garbage in, garbage out").
Basing this ranking on 4 different rankings from around the world does not make sense because each rating & ranking system has its own categories--many of which are subjective including "academic reputation". Rating & ranking schools is fine so long as the ranking system shares the methodology and the score for each rating category within that methodology. This allows readers and consumers to break out each category individually and rerank the schools based on a single rating factor. This way one can focus on the aspect--whether subjective or objective--that matters most to that consumer. An objective factor that I find useful, but does not appear to be used by any of the four rankings system combined by bluesky, is a school's R&D (research & development) expenditures/budget for a particular year. The budget/expenditures is more important than publications because much research is done for private industry and, most likely, never published. |
Anonymous
Yes and no. I think that the real problem with this ranking is the continued perception that there is such a thing as ranking. These are all great universities, and how one would decide between them and many other great schools depends on what you are trying to get out of it. I agree with you that research is often under-prioritized, but total R&D expenditures distorts this in favor of the largest schools and those with medical schools since NIH funding makes up such a large proportion of R&D expenditures. In reality Princeton and Rice have researchers who are just as brilliant and productive as those at Michigan and Wisconsin, there are just many fewer of them since the schools are smaller. But, they are competitive when trying to recruit faculty against the larger schools. R& D expenditures only captures part of the picture of the quality of research at a University. |
Anonymous
| These posts are so BORING!!!! Get a life and find something else to do. We all know how to use google to look up rankings!!!!!!! Go pay attention to your children. Every time I read these silly posts I am sad for the people who find this interesting. |
Anonymous
but UMD did. 
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Anonymous
May be based as much on research as anything else. |
Anonymous
It’s was first in the list. For some reason 0 was cut off. |
Anonymous
Not that I disagree with your point, but chastising people for commenting on a thread that you've confessed to reading thoroughly and are commenting on yourself is a clear winner for most ironic thing I've heard someone say today. |
Anonymous
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It’s a grade of the entire school.
20 percent of the Top 50 are Big Ten. |
Anonymous
UMD is a research giant. |
Anonymous
? there are no VA universities on the top 50 list |
Anonymous
| Seems like this is just a ranking of schools with large graduate programs. |
Anonymous
Brown? |
Anonymous
…Which really isn’t that useful even for grad students since small grad programs are often highly regarded but would not be on this list (ie Harvard medical school, etc) |
Anonymous
Huge research schools with huge resources. |