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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What the hell happened to UVA?

These rankings are rigged.[/quote]

US only	School/Country
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2	Harvard University
3	Princeton University
4	Stanford University
5	California Institute of Technology
6	University of California, Berkeley
7	Yale University
8	The University of Chicago
8	University of Pennsylvania
10	Johns Hopkins University
11	Columbia University
11	University of California, Los Angeles
13	Cornell University
14	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
15	Carnegie Mellon University
16	University of Washington
17	Duke University
18	Northwestern University
19	New York University
20	University of California, San Diego
21	Georgia Institute of Technology
22	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
23	University of Texas at Austin
24	University of Wisconsin-Madison
25	Brown University
26	University of California, Davis
27	University of California, Santa Barbara
28	Washington University in St Louis
29	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
30	University of Southern California
31	Boston University
32	Purdue University West Lafayette
33	University of Massachusetts
34	University of Minnesota
35	University of California, Irvine
35	Vanderbilt University
37	Emory University
38	Penn State (Main campus)
39	Rice University
39	University of Maryland, College Park
41	Ohio State University (Main campus)
42	Michigan State University
43	University of Rochester
44	University of Florida
45	University of Arizona
46	University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh campus
47	Texas A&M University
47	University of Colorado Boulder
49	Case Western Reserve University
50	University of Virginia (Main campus)[/quote]

This feels like it includes grad schools heavily.[/quote]

Research[/quote]

The ranking includes the whole school, undergrad and grad and professional. Yes that means the academic research component in multiple areas will raise the world rankings. To me and to many that is better than rankings based on pell grant % and other non academic factors. Lots of faculty doing research and lots of research $ coming in means undergraduates of these top schools can get research experience early and often. Our eldest, econ major, ivy : tons of research with faculty (data science applications for environment). The ivy pays undergraduates for research. Almost any who pursue it more than a couple semesters gets published. Kid got their junior internship due to this experience. They got a 6figure job in environmental consulting because of that internship. No competitive clubs needed , just engage with faculty and do research. 55% of undergraduates in econ and other fields do research at this ivy and the other similar schools toured. The engineering kids it’s probably 80%. The ivy has small classes for all but intro econ and most of the calc sections. This type of school, in the 5-10k range undergrads plus the research aspect that comes from being a well known entity in many sectors, provides a world class education. The global ranking combined with investigating class sizes and teaching, as well as endowment, is a better way to find top undergraduate education, in my opinion. Second is applying now, ED to a different ivy that also ranks in the top half of ivies globally. 
SLACs are great for many, and a big school like UCB with a high global ranking are right for others. But for many the ivies (less so for Brown and not Dartmouth) or Stanford or MIT or JHU provide that perfect blend of research and small class sizes with top faculty [/quote]

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