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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The world rankings are more logical and respected globally.[/quote]

This is simply not true. The global rankings are even more nonsensical, and one of them, QS, is notorious for its British bias.[/quote]
The global rankings do a good job of what they are for: ranking reputations of universities globally.

No one thinks that Vanderbilt or Duke are more reputed institutions than UC Berkeley, but the undergraduate rankings incorrectly ranks it as such.

The National Universities ranking is a misnomer. It should obviously be renamed to indicate it ranks based on undergraduate studies specifically. [/quote]

Uh, yeah, no.

And no one thinks University of Washington and UC San Diego are better universities than Duke and UPenn.[/quote]
Quite clearly they do, otherwise they wouldn't be ranked higher on a global reputation ranking, would they?

Their higher ranking is based off of their stellar medical schools, which quite obviously stellar enough to boos the schools, particularly Washington up quite high.

If you think medical research by institutions isn't important or should not be considered, you are an idiot. [/quote]

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