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Your metric for ranking universities is in no way based on how productive the university is in research or the quality of the graduating students. Even if you
by computervision 10y ago
Your metric for ranking universities is in no way based on how productive the university is in research or the quality of the graduating students.
Even if you consider the things you mentioned as proxies for the quality of the university, they are extremely weak ones and there are better metrics available to judge the quality of a university.
Am I wrong in viewing this comment as a flawed attempt to attack the university? Open to any counterarguments.
- tikhonj 10y agoPresumably OP's ranking cares about things besides just research quality in CS or graduating students? Those other things aren't proxies for the quality of the university, they're components of it.
- computervision 10y agoUnfortunately creating one's own idiosyncratic ranking holds no value to the world if it doesn't conform to what the world values. (Open to counter arguments on what the world values) People generally use rankings to gauge how strong a university is perceived. OP's comments do nothing to change my perception of the university's strength.
- computervision 10y agoThanks OP for the downvote without any written rebuttal, I'll take that as a confirmation of my above point.
- philh 10y agoYou can't downvote replies to your own comments.
- mturmon 10y agoYou are correct that the comment is based on a couple of anecdotes that don't say much about the school, so it has little value.
- kriro 10y agoIt's a personal judgement that is independent of the actual research performed. It's only a personal ranking to answer the question "would I want to work there". I also downgrade universities that have a hard pro copyright stance, do heavy military research etc. It's a personal ranking and not one that I'd tell anyone to follow. People should rank by their own criteria.