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Post 06/23/2025 07:35     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.


Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!


I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.


You've got it completely backward. Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus













It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??


More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.


Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?


It has a good retention rate. The other three things are middling for a “top” university.


Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.


Only 24% submitted SAT scores and 7% ACT scores on the most recent CDS. Lol. It might not be in the top 75 if they actually looked at scores for everyone.

Its 4 year graduation rate is not that impressive. They don’t report to USNWR (suspicious, especially given their history) but their own data would have them tied for 44th. Lots of fifth years. Have to be good with that or really want the co-op.

Those earnings are only for kids that received federal student aid. But still $11k less than a school like BC.


Again, so the SAT/ACT data is from 2018 when scores were mandatory. Now, tons of more applications from high stat applicants pool.

6-year is industry standard for graduation rate due to considerations such as major change, transfer, study abroad, gap year, 5 year programs, double major, etc.

Those earnings data is particularly useful for middle class normal people. Federal aids include any type of Federal loans. Huge portion of middle and upper middle class fall into the category. We don't care about earrings by Obama kid, Trump kid, Bill Gates kid, etc. Rich kids with fancy connections actually skew the data, so it's good thing to eliminate them.

Northeastern: $93K
Brown: $93K
Vanderbilt: $92K
UChicago: $92K
Rice: $90K
Northwestern: $89K
WashU: $86K
UMich: $84K
UCLA: $83K
Emory: $80K
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 20:02     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219


And meanwhile the University of Washington in Seattle comes in as the 8th best university in the world. I can see why schools like Rice and Dartmouth score low - they hardly have any graduate students, but are still universities. But I am mystified by these rankings none the less. It reads like a list composed by a monkey throwing darts.

Washington is highly ranked in many areas of research, especially statistics, data science, computer science. As someone in the biological statistics realm, it is only beaten by Harvard for accolades and research output. Nothing mystical about it.


But isn’t money the metric? A lot of local billionaires have funneled money into the school and its research departments—and those same billionaires lobby for federal research grants.

ICYMI: success breeds success.

But that metric is rather meaningless when it comes to your Larla’s degree and career options.

Is anyone claiming that the global rankings are for undergraduate student’s “degree and career options” though?


No but on the other thread about this ranking there were people claiming that any ranking not solely focused on those types of things is useless.
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Post 06/22/2025 18:00     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Anonymous wrote:These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219


And meanwhile the University of Washington in Seattle comes in as the 8th best university in the world. I can see why schools like Rice and Dartmouth score low - they hardly have any graduate students, but are still universities. But I am mystified by these rankings none the less. It reads like a list composed by a monkey throwing darts.

Washington is highly ranked in many areas of research, especially statistics, data science, computer science. As someone in the biological statistics realm, it is only beaten by Harvard for accolades and research output. Nothing mystical about it.


But isn’t money the metric? A lot of local billionaires have funneled money into the school and its research departments—and those same billionaires lobby for federal research grants.

ICYMI: success breeds success.

But that metric is rather meaningless when it comes to your Larla’s degree and career options.

Is anyone claiming that the global rankings are for undergraduate student’s “degree and career options” though?
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 17:51     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:These are lower than expected...

Gatech-79

UIUC-109

CMU-126

Perdue- 173

Rice-219


And meanwhile the University of Washington in Seattle comes in as the 8th best university in the world. I can see why schools like Rice and Dartmouth score low - they hardly have any graduate students, but are still universities. But I am mystified by these rankings none the less. It reads like a list composed by a monkey throwing darts.

Washington is highly ranked in many areas of research, especially statistics, data science, computer science. As someone in the biological statistics realm, it is only beaten by Harvard for accolades and research output. Nothing mystical about it.


But isn’t money the metric? A lot of local billionaires have funneled money into the school and its research departments—and those same billionaires lobby for federal research grants.

ICYMI: success breeds success.

But that metric is rather meaningless when it comes to your Larla’s degree and career options.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 17:01     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

Anonymous wrote:This ranking is nonsense.


It is really mostly a research ranking.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 17:44     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

Anonymous wrote:QS 2026 ranking also released couple of days ago.

https://www.qs.com/insights/articles/qs-world-university-rankings-results/


Within the UK itself, this looks mostly right. A few could move a couple of spots up or down but the order otherwise seems mostly accurate.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 17:05     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

This ranking is nonsense.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 15:56     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

Anonymous wrote:QS 2026 ranking also released couple of days ago.

https://www.qs.com/insights/articles/qs-world-university-rankings-results/


Imperial College at number 2. ETH Zurich at number 7. National University of Singapore at number at 8. University College London at number 9.

High school students in America have been waiting with bated breath for this ranking.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 15:40     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

QS 2026 ranking also released couple of days ago.

https://www.qs.com/insights/articles/qs-world-university-rankings-results/
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 15:08     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.


Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!


I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.


You've got it completely backward. Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus













It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??


More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.


Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?


It has a good retention rate. The other three things are middling for a “top” university.


Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.


Only 24% submitted SAT scores and 7% ACT scores on the most recent CDS. Lol. It might not be in the top 75 if they actually looked at scores for everyone.

Its 4 year graduation rate is not that impressive. They don’t report to USNWR (suspicious, especially given their history) but their own data would have them tied for 44th. Lots of fifth years. Have to be good with that or really want the co-op.

Those earnings are only for kids that received federal student aid. But still $11k less than a school like BC.
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Post 06/20/2025 14:44     Subject: Re:Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Are you embarrassed Penn state is 71


Actually ranked 91 with an overall score of 71. Some really impressive subject rankings.


Pennsylvania State University is ranked #91 in Best Global Universities.

Subject Rankings
#101 in Agricultural Sciences
#24 in Arts and Humanities
#125 in Biology and Biochemistry (tie)
#99 in Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology (tie)
#128 in Cell Biology (tie)
#135 in Chemical Engineering (tie)
#121 in Chemistry
#120 in Civil Engineering
#201 in Clinical Medicine (tie)
#113 in Computer Science (tie)
#74 in Condensed Matter Physics (tie)
#133 in Ecology
#38 in Economics and Business
#29 in Education and Educational Research
#227 in Electrical and Electronic Engineering (tie)
#201 in Endocrinology and Metabolism
#112 in Energy and Fuels
#105 in Engineering (tie)
#185 in Environmental Engineering
#73 in Environment/Ecology (tie)
#199 in Food Science and Technology (tie)
#232 in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
#37 in Geosciences (tie)
#135 in Green and Sustainable Science and Technology (tie)
#172 in Immunology
#48 in Materials Science
#57 in Mathematics
#115 in Mechanical Engineering (tie)
#71 in Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences
#102 in Microbiology (tie)
#105 in Molecular Biology and Genetics
#79 in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
#209 in Neuroscience and Behavior
#236 in Oncology (tie)
#156 in Optics
#422 in Pharmacology and Toxicology (tie)
#92 in Physical Chemistry (tie)
#34 in Physics (tie)
#35 in Plant and Animal Science
#88 in Polymer Science (tie)
#50 in Psychiatry/Psychology (tie)
#249in Public, Environmental and Occupational Health (tie)
#36 in Social Sciences and Public Health
#20 in Space Science
#164 in Surgery
#63 in Water Resources


You forgot:

#1 in Covering up Pedophilia
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 11:45     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.


Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!


I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.


You've got it completely backward. Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus













It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??


More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.


Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?


Tactics such as having kids shuttled off to London or Oakland or any of these random satellite campuses and all the other ploys to game the rankings.

https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/

NE booster...you never, ever, ever do yourself any favors when you respond. You make everyone think less of the school, yet you just can't help yourself.

We love getting you riled up...and now wait for it everyone...
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 09:36     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.


Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!


I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.


You've got it completely backward. Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus













It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??


More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.


Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?


It has a good retention rate. The other three things are middling for a “top” university.


Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.

dp.. At the top, I don't think graduation rates are that meaningful. What's more meaningful is whether the student was able to secure a good paying job. Look at Zuckerburg, for example. Officially, he did not graduate, but no one can say he is not successful.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 08:37     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:Where is UVA?

Where are Northeastern and Bucknell?

Northeastern is #220, just below Rice at #219. (There's a Northeastern University in China at #445.) I didn't see Bucknell -- though I stopped scrolling at #638.

For context, Dartmouth is tied for #326 with the University of Lagos.


Really Northeastern (220), Rice (219) and UVA (137)! Go Cavaliers!!!!! Wahoo!!!


I don’t trust the Northeastern ranking…school probably fudged its submitted stats.


You've got it completely backward. Northeastern is one of the most trustworthy schools.
They have been straightforward, open, and transparent, and never accused of cheating like many many other schools.
You should be suspicious of schools like Emory, UCBerkeley, Columbia, etc.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/caught-cheating-colleges-falsify-admissions-data-higher-rankings-flna1c8964083

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/uc-berkeley-booted-from-u-s-news-best-college-list-misreporting/

https://www.wtvr.com/2012/08/19/emory-university-admits-to-12-years-of-falsifying-test-scores

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/sep/16/columbia-whistleblower-us-news-rankings-michael-thaddeus













It's really weird there have been many schools flat out cheated and got caught.
These people never mention that, but pick on Northeastern every single time.

Maybe it's just one or two hardcore trolls having a really hard feeling about the school for some reason??


More because we can count on riling the Northeastern booster every time. It’s like they have DCUM alerts sent to them.

Even though Northeastern to this day employs all kinds of tricks to juice their rankings.


Yes, tactics such as having one of the best retention rates, great graduation rate, high quality student body, amazing outcomes, etc. etc.

Your kid at one of the cheater schools or something?


It has a good retention rate. The other three things are middling for a “top” university.


Depends on what you mean by "top", however

Outcome based on median earning is equal or better compared to many T25ish schools.
https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/school/?167358-Northeastern-University

#25 including LACs. It's just before the Pandemic when scores were mandatory
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-50-smartest-colleges-in-america-2016-10#25-northeastern-university-average-sat-1435-26

Most recent graduation rate is top 30 among national universities
https://www.collegeraptor.com/college-rankings/details/GraduationRate6Year

It's very under-ranked by the actually important relatively objective metrics.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 21:07     Subject: Best Global Universities US News 2025 - 2026

Useless ranking.