US News & World Report named Harvard the best college in the world

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Anonymous wrote:I believe the turmoil at UVA a couple of years ago was partially caused by international rankings that revealed their weak position in research.

Don't know. But no sensible person would argue that Ohio State, Washington, or Wisconsin are "better" than UVa.

Not sure about Ohio State but Washing and Wisconsin are certainly equal or better than UVA overall (especially outside of VA and in other countries).

Sorry you didn't get in.

I got into a better one.

OK then.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone in academia knows UVa has been overrated by US Bews domestic rankings. It's ridiculous, as said by former UMd president CD Mote.

I think it is common knowledge in the academic world that the best US public universities are: Berkeley, UCLA, Washington, Michigan, and the newly developed UCSD.

How about Wisconsin?

UW Madison #26

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Anonymous wrote:One wonders what the editors at Useless News are thinking. They rank Princeton (#1) and Yale ahead of Harvard on the U.S. Rankings and then slot them somewhat down the list on a global ranking. It's all nonsensical.

The U.S. Rankings seem to be more of a popularity contest. Many of the public universities do well on a global basis because they have been well respected around the world for a long time especially for their research.

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Anonymous wrote:One wonders what the editors at Useless News are thinking. They rank Princeton (#1) and Yale ahead of Harvard on the U.S. Rankings and then slot them somewhat down the list on a global ranking. It's all nonsensical.

The U.S. Rankings seem to be more of a popularity contest. Many of the public universities do well on a global basis because they have been well respected around the world for a long time especially for their research.

Absolutely! This global list may not be good enough, but their domestic rankings are much more flawed against public universities without considering the bigger contributions by these public schools to the society and the mankind as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:What was the methodology? It seems hilarious that it's almost all US schools. Not one from China? Western Europe?

Isn't the UK considered Western Europe?

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Where's GMU?

-Patriot alumni

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Anonymous wrote:I believe the turmoil at UVA a couple of years ago was partially caused by international rankings that revealed their weak position in research.

Don't know. But no sensible person would argue that Ohio State, Washington, or Wisconsin are "better" than UVa.

Oh yes, they would. UVA is good for some arts subjects and business, but is way behind Wisconsin or Washington in STEM. Wisconsin is a serious school and the faculty is much much better than at UVA. But they let more students in each year, so they get a wider cross-section of students in terms of ability.

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary #532

William and Mary is sui generis. It is what it says it is: the best small public university in the country.

Isn't anything that's sui generis the best in its class?

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Anonymous wrote:Where's GMU?

-Patriot alumni

#370

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Anonymous wrote:What was the methodology? It seems hilarious that it's almost all US schools. Not one from China? Western Europe?

Top two from China:

#41 Peking University

#59 Tsinghua University

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Anonymous wrote:Where's GMU?

-Patriot alumni

Fairfax?

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Anonymous wrote:William and Mary #532

William and Mary is sui generis. It is what it says it is: the best small public university in the country.

Isn't anything that's sui generis the best in its class?

Let it go, bro.

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Anonymous wrote:I believe the turmoil at UVA a couple of years ago was partially caused by international rankings that revealed their weak position in research.

Don't know. But no sensible person would argue that Ohio State, Washington, or Wisconsin are "better" than UVa.

Oh yes, they would. UVA is good for some arts subjects and business, but is way behind Wisconsin or Washington in STEM. Wisconsin is a serious school and the faculty is much much better than at UVA. But they let more students in each year, so they get a wider cross-section of students in terms of ability.

In other words, they are much easier to get into. Someone here sure has an ax to grind about Va public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:UC Berkeley - 3rd
UCLA - 8th
Michigan - 17th
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UVA - 94th

I guess it's true what people outside of VA say about UVA.

And UMD is 41!

The ranking gods have spoken.

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Anonymous wrote:Where's GMU?

-Patriot alumni

My condolences.