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

[Anonymous]

These are not the best colleges in the world, they are the best *research universities.* This is about graduate research, not about the undergraduate experience. That's why no SLAC, no matter how fine, will be on the list--they have no graduate students. And size of university is crucially important. The rankings are based on:

Global research reputation
Regional research reputation
total number of publications
total number of books
total number of conferences
Normalized citation impact
Total citations
Number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited
International collaboration
Number of Ph.D.s awarded
Number of Ph.D.s awarded per academic staff member

Any ranking based on the *number* of whatever will naturally give a large advantage to big universities over smaller ones.

Frankly, I find this ranking not the least bit interesting or useful, but YMMV.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These are not the best colleges in the world, they are the best *research universities.* This is about graduate research, not about the undergraduate experience. That's why no SLAC, no matter how fine, will be on the list--they have no graduate students. And size of university is crucially important. The rankings are based on:

Global research reputation
Regional research reputation
total number of publications
total number of books
total number of conferences
Normalized citation impact
Total citations
Number of publications that are among the 10 percent most cited
Percentage of total publications that are among the 10 percent most cited
International collaboration
Number of Ph.D.s awarded
Number of Ph.D.s awarded per academic staff member

Any ranking based on the *number* of whatever will naturally give a large advantage to big universities over smaller ones.

Frankly, I find this ranking not the least bit interesting or useful, but YMMV.

This ranking is much better than the one based on size of the endowments or alumni contributions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
This ranking is much better than the one based on size of the endowments or alumni contributions.

I agree. But they still can improve their ranking methodology for this ranking table by getting rid of subjective data input (i.e., the so-called reputation survey).

[Anonymous]

Any ranking that has Michigan State reasonably high is, in my view, suspect. Cow college.

[Anonymous]

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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.

World ranking is more relevant since we are becoming more global everyday!

[Anonymous]

Anyone surprised Berkeley is ranked 3rd?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anyone surprised Berkeley is ranked 3rd?

This is the common knowledge for decades among those who have not been brainwashed by US News domestic Best College Ranking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Anyone surprised Berkeley is ranked 3rd?

This is the common knowledge for decades among those who have not been brainwashed by US News domestic Best College Ranking.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Where is UVA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

In Charlottesvile, with satellite campuses in Falls Church and some other places.