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Top universities by reputation 2013
Not that it really matters.
- minikomi 14y agoThe drop off after the top 10 is brutal. Talk about a long tail..
- joshAg 14y agoForget top ten, look at the drop between 6 and 7!
- joshAg 14y agoi'm surprised berkeley topped stanford. Also, I wonder what oxford did to jump ahead of both cal and stanford.
- geebee 14y agoIt's not that surprising when you consider the focus of the survey. The times discounts undergraduate admissions. If you look at the strength and breadth of PhD programs, Berkeley probably does have a very slight edge over Stanford, though at that point it has more to do with research focus. I'm actually more surprised with how low UMich's ranking is, since it also shows the typical "public research university" pattern of ranking much higher at the graduate/department level than the undergrad, largely due to in-state admissions quotas and a larger undergraduate population. Another thing to keep in mind when looking at these rankings... UCSF ranks 40th. This has nothing to do with the quality of UCSF as a research institution, it's because UCSF is a health sciences campus. It's not exclusively a med school - there are PhD programs as well, but there are no undergraduates and by design it is not a general research university (there is no electrical engineering or history department). UCSF is definitely not the 40th ranked medical research institution (it probably has a claim on the top spot). This is probably the best illustration of how distorted rankings can get. Similarly, Berkeley and many other campuses (MIT, for instance) don't have med schools, which affects their numbers. As usual, rankings are fun, and they aren't useless. If a university ranks high on this list, that's a pretty good sign that it is a well regarded research institution. But as a "score card", it's not especially useful. Seventh place vs tenth place probably doesn't have much meaning.
- libria 14y agoSome info on the methodology here: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013/reputation-ranking/methodology http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki.... Seems highly subjective but more organized than a simple popularity contest. I find it odd that Texas A&M and UF made this list while Dartmouth not at all.
- twiceaday 14y agoUniversity of Waterloo is not in the top 100. Strange.
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- goodcanadian 14y agoTo me, the reputation ranking is much less interesting than their "World University Rankings" which ranks on a lot more criteria than simply reputation.