Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 13:06     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition


The methodology is not superior to US News as QS rankings are focused on graduate schools and research citations, not on undergraduate schools.


But they are rankings of universities, not of undergrad programs.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 12:52     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:Why is Georgetown so low? I think of it as an Ivy-plus.


50% of the ranking is research output.

30% is Employer reputation and employment outcomes.

Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 12:43     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Why is Georgetown so low? I think of it as an Ivy-plus.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 11:02     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:What's odd is that for the most part the top 20 ranked schools have very strong Employer Reputation and employment outcomes...except CalTech which has a terrible Employment Outcomes score.

Wonder why the disconnect there.

Caltech student body isn't filled with sellouts who want to use their skills for defense tech and hedge funds, but they go to Caltech to become researchers. Early career outcomes are low because they need their PhDs which pay 30-50k.


I doubt that's the reason because they don't count kids going into graduate programs against these rankings.

Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:58     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:What's odd is that for the most part the top 20 ranked schools have very strong Employer Reputation and employment outcomes...except CalTech which has a terrible Employment Outcomes score.

Wonder why the disconnect there.

Caltech student body isn't filled with sellouts who want to use their skills for defense tech and hedge funds, but they go to Caltech to become researchers. Early career outcomes are low because they need their PhDs which pay 30-50k.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:54     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
What's odd is that for the most part the top 20 ranked schools have very strong Employer Reputation and employment outcomes...except CalTech which has a terrible Employment Outcomes score.

Wonder why the disconnect there.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:46     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Would be great to see rankings only based on Research and Discovery and Employability & Outcomes.

Learning Experience I guess could be included, but not sure how much anyone cares about Sustainability and Global Engagement.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:29     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
World has moved on since the days of HYP …. Some old fogies haven’t woken up to the new reality.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:12     Subject: Re:QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Looking only at undergrads now- could care less about largest research.


Plus grad school is about the specific subject, not the university as a whole. Duh.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:10     Subject: Re:QS 2026 ranking out
Who cares? Looking only at undergrads now- could care less about largest research.

Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 10:05     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition

Americans don’t care how other countries and international types “rank” American graduate schools. Or how the UK inflates the rankings of their (inferior, and much easier admit) schools in an effort to make themselves feel relevant…
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 09:54     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition


The methodology is not superior to US News as QS rankings are focused on graduate schools and research citations, not on undergraduate schools.
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 09:44     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Anonymous wrote:https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition


Tier 1 should be top 10 - Crème de le crème: MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Caltech
Tier 2 top 20 - Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell, UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Others
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 09:37     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
Feel better?
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 09:34     Subject: QS 2026 ranking out
https://www.topuniversities.com/world-university-rankings?items_per_page=100

Among US universities: ( methodology superior to USnews)

Crème de le crème: MIT , Harvard, Stanford,Caltech, Uchicago, UPenn, Cornell

Tier 1.5: UCB, Johns Hopkins,Yale, Princeton

Tier 2: Columbia, Northwestern, Umich,UCLA

Tier 3: Duke, CMU ( ex CS), nYU, Brown//

Understandably Dartmouth/Vanderbit/Washu ranks are too low to get recognition