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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans generally like to think we are the best in the world at essentially everything, so good to see a world ranking[/quote]

Pp here

No. I actually think the us is pretty crappy in most aspects

But Oxford grads are not movers and shakers in the world in relation to being “the number 1 school in the world”

PPE is their “thing” yet the best politics, ir scholarship DOES NOT come Oxford

Econ departments are much stronger in the us

Eth Zurich, mit, Princeton, etc are stronger in applied sciences

What areas are you seeing Oxford alums as “top tier” reflective of the rank of the school??

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Just a random here but totally agree. You can criticize the US for all sorts of reasons, but the quality of universities is not one of them. [b]All the best thinkers, researchers, and scientists come to the U[/b]S. Oxford and Zurich are very fine schools but they are not rolling with MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Harvard, and Princeton when it comes to talent and cutting edge research. I would add a lot of other schools to that. I've been working globally for a long time. All the most impressive people I've met came out of American universities. They might not be American, but they definitely went to American universities.

An Oxford PPE degree is definitely a thing though. I'm impressed by that. Generally, when you meet a 25 year old with a PPE degree from Oxford you are shaking hands with a future prime minister from whatever country they're from. It's a very unique degree. [/quote]

All  I was at oxford this summer.  You clearly don't have any idea what you are talking about.  [/quote]

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