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Anonymous wrote:If Virginia Tech is a big research university, where is it on this list?

Dunno, where is UVA? Or W&M?

May I suggest you google before posting? The top R1s are enormous with huge graduate programs - that’s what produces top
flight research : Harvard, Stanford,Berkeley (44,000 students), UCLA (42,000 students). UVA is comparatively small (16,000) and W&M is tiny. In my humble experience, Harvard undergrads suffer for this. W&M grads don’t. You pick a school for the best teaching experience for them, not rank for research that they will never even know about.

VaTech is an R1 research university...

As are both UVA and WM… not sure what your point is.

Judging scientific prowess based on the number of citations can be misleading because different academic disciplines have different citation culture.

When medical researchers publish a paper, they tend to be generous in who they cite, giving credit to even loosely related work. This citation practice allows most medical researchers to have numerous citations. In contrast, mathematicians cite a paper only when that paper is 100% relevant. Mathematicians on average also publish far fewer papers over their lifetime compared to medical researchers.

This discrepancy favors schools with strong medical research, partially explaining why WashU is highly ranked given that it has nearly 3000 medical faculty (!) and has the second most funding from NIH (https://medicine.washu.edu/news/washu-medicine-rises-to-no-2-in-nation-in-nih-research-funding/#:~:text=WashU%20Medicine%20is%20a%20global%20leader%20in,care%20and%20educational%20programs%20with%202%2C900%20faculty.).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Virginia Tech is a big research university, where is it on this list?

Dunno, where is UVA? Or W&M?

May I suggest you google before posting? The top R1s are enormous with huge graduate programs - that’s what produces top
flight research : Harvard, Stanford,Berkeley (44,000 students), UCLA (42,000 students). UVA is comparatively small (16,000) and W&M is tiny. In my humble experience, Harvard undergrads suffer for this. W&M grads don’t. You pick a school for the best teaching experience for them, not rank for research that they will never even know about.

We know many current undergrads at Harvard and others in the top 5 and the undergrad experience is better because of it. My kids personally know professors on this list from their different schools: they are, unquestionably, cherished faculty in the eyes of undergrads. They teach and advise and they help the students.

Anonymous wrote:This could hardly be less relevant to undergrad experience.

You do not understand what is desired by many undergrads and what is required for the ones aiming MD or PhD. As a parent with two kids in schools in the top 5 on this list and one kid at a school that would be at least 20-30 spots below the end of this list with nine researchers, the experience getting undergrad research is vastly different. Conducting in depth research with a likelihood of being published and a likelihood of professors knowing many other professors across the nation in the area is directly correlated to being higher on this list.

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Anonymous wrote:If Virginia Tech is a big research university, where is it on this list?

Dunno, where is UVA? Or W&M?

May I suggest you google before posting? The top R1s are enormous with huge graduate programs - that’s what produces top
flight research : Harvard, Stanford,Berkeley (44,000 students), UCLA (42,000 students). UVA is comparatively small (16,000) and W&M is tiny. In my humble experience, Harvard undergrads suffer for this. W&M grads don’t. You pick a school for the best teaching experience for them, not rank for research that they will never even know about.

VaTech is an R1 research university...

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If Virginia Tech is a big research university, where is it on this list?

Dunno, where is UVA? Or W&M?

May I suggest you google before posting? The top R1s are enormous with huge graduate programs - that’s what produces top
flight research : Harvard, Stanford,Berkeley (44,000 students), UCLA (42,000 students). UVA is comparatively small (16,000) and W&M is tiny. In my humble experience, Harvard undergrads suffer for this. W&M grads don’t. You pick a school for the best teaching experience for them, not rank for research that they will never even know about.

Anonymous wrote:This could hardly be less relevant to undergrad experience.

-+1. Boom!

Anonymous wrote:If Virginia Tech is a big research university, where is it on this list?

Dunno, where is UVA? Or W&M?

Anonymous wrote:BU & N'eastern tied with research behemoths Ohio State & Penn State !

You don't see Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Indiana, Oklahoma, all flagship research universities.

Do these star professors just prefer to be at a private school in Boston? Or do schools like BU and Northeastern give more money and support?

Grad school lists — which is what this is — are totally useless. It depends on the field and programs vary widely, even amongst the most elite instructions.

Anonymous wrote:What’s the purpose of this list?

To bring a little joy into the lives of Wash. U. alumni.

Anonymous wrote:Surprised that the University of Michigan ranked at just #26 since it has the second largest R&D budget/expenditures in the nation.

How did UC-SantaCruz beat U Michigan ?

JHU has the largest R&D budget/expenditures by far among US universities yet ranks just ahead of Northwestern University & UNC by the slightest of margins.

The ranking measures quality, not just quantity, of research. So a researcher churning out an insignificant paper doesn't move the needle.

BU & N'eastern tied with research behemoths Ohio State & Penn State !

Surprised that the University of Michigan ranked at just #26 since it has the second largest R&D budget/expenditures in the nation.

How did UC-SantaCruz beat U Michigan ?

JHU has the largest R&D budget/expenditures by far among US universities yet ranks just ahead of Northwestern University & UNC by the slightest of margins.

If Virginia Tech is a big research university, where is it on this list?