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It doesn't "do" anything right. It just happens to be the oldest university in the US therefore very prestigious That can't be all of it, because other
by cbr 11y ago
It doesn't "do" anything right. It just happens to
be the oldest university in the US therefore very
prestigious
That can't be all of it, because other similarly old ones are nowhere near as prestigious. For example the College of William and Mary is 1693 and St. John’s College is 1696, which puts them older than Yale or Princeton, but far fewer people have heard of them.
In general, it is futile asking what extremely successful
outliers "do" right ... it would not be replicable.
Hanson isn't trying to replicate their success (found a top-tier university), he's trying to understand it.
- hatmatrix 11y agoYes, it's interesting to hypothesise what the younger schools that do break into the top rankings are doing right. E.g., Stanford, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon in the U.S.. It seems to be a combination of heavy private investment, recruitment of name brand faculty, and structuring of internal incentives to be a competitive (grant-winning) institution.