QS 2026 ranking out

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is looking at where to go for her undergrad. How a university’s grad programs stack up internationally is entirely irrelevant to that.

What matters to most of the world or benefits the world is research so that is what is ranked. The top schools in the US still show up in the list because not only are they strong brands but they are also strong research institutions. If US falls back in research it will be a huge issue for the country.

[Anonymous]

Research outputs have impact on undergraduate education too. You don’t want too many teaching facilities. You want to learn from professors who have published research in their fields.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is looking at where to go for her undergrad. How a university’s grad programs stack up internationally is entirely irrelevant to that.

What matters to most of the world or benefits the world is research so that is what is ranked. The top schools in the US still show up in the list because not only are they strong brands but they are also strong research institutions. If US falls back in research it will be a huge issue for the country.

This ranking specifically focuses on international research, which isn't relevant to UG. QS just panders to international students who want to go to school in other countries. Irrelevant to anyone looking to go to college in the same country.

[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

Princeton and Yale not ranked with Havard?? The horror. What will we ever do?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

It took the second page of this thread, but here it is.....questions about UVA

[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.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is looking at where to go for her undergrad. How a university’s grad programs stack up internationally is entirely irrelevant to that.

What matters to most of the world or benefits the world is research so that is what is ranked. The top schools in the US still show up in the list because not only are they strong brands but they are also strong research institutions. If US falls back in research it will be a huge issue for the country.

This ranking specifically focuses on international research, which isn't relevant to UG. QS just panders to international students who want to go to school in other countries. Irrelevant to anyone looking to go to college in the same country.

That's why Cornell higher than Yale for example. More international students should apply to other schools than the usual hypsm.

[Anonymous]

What matters to most of the world or benefits the world is research so that is what is ranked. The top schools in the US still show up in the list because not only are they strong brands but they are also strong research institutions. If US falls behind in research it will be a huge issue for the country. If a few SLACs go out of business I doubt it will impact anything.

[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

Accurate! Stem based research dollars puts these ahead of the pack.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is looking at where to go for her undergrad. How a university’s grad programs stack up internationally is entirely irrelevant to that.

What matters to most of the world or benefits the world is research so that is what is ranked. The top schools in the US still show up in the list because not only are they strong brands but they are also strong research institutions. If US falls back in research it will be a huge issue for the country.

This ranking specifically focuses on international research, which isn't relevant to UG. QS just panders to international students who want to go to school in other countries. Irrelevant to anyone looking to go to college in the same country.

Research quality and opportunities at these top world ranked schools is much better than other schools and is very much relevant for any student who is considering research-based fields (PhD, MD, md-phD, and research based tech industry private or govt run). Undergrads who attend these places get to do research with faculty starting potentially freshman year and many get published by junior year. These institutions can often pay undergrads for research, and invite their own students to work summers. It is a giant advantage to attend one of the handful of US universities that are in the QS World Top20.

[Anonymous]

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

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[Anonymous]

The QS ranking is yet another product of a British content generation complex, like the lawyer/law firm rankings. Crap in, crap out.

It's like the world professional tennis rankings, probably useful for the top 20-30, but at lower ranks questionable, biased and not comparable.

If you believe that Kazakh National University is comparable to Wash U, have at it! They are tied in this silly ranking. Borat U had better scores for academic reputation, employer reputation, employment outcomes, global engagement, and virtually tied for for learning experience.

This is not an apples to oranges comparison, it's an apples to tomatoes comparison.

[Anonymous]

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

Maybe you could publish your own ranking, with HYPSMG at the top.

[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 creme de la creme group is the most targeted by international students at top schools, often stem applicants. Maybe add Princeton and move chicago down but that group is basically what everyone in the international pool wants

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid is looking at where to go for her undergrad. How a university’s grad programs stack up internationally is entirely irrelevant to that.

What matters to most of the world or benefits the world is research so that is what is ranked. The top schools in the US still show up in the list because not only are they strong brands but they are also strong research institutions. If US falls back in research it will be a huge issue for the country.

This ranking specifically focuses on international research, which isn't relevant to UG. QS just panders to international students who want to go to school in other countries. Irrelevant to anyone looking to go to college in the same country.

Research quality and opportunities at these top world ranked schools is much better than other schools and is very much relevant for any student who is considering research-based fields (PhD, MD, md-phD, and research based tech industry private or govt run). Undergrads who attend these places get to do research with faculty starting potentially freshman year and many get published by junior year. These institutions can often pay undergrads for research, and invite their own students to work summers. It is a giant advantage to attend one of the handful of US universities that are in the QS World Top20.

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