Here's the 2011 list of the World's 101 Top Universities. Which rank # is your school ? Tell us

The sea yields to knowledge wrote:

How is Ohio State ahead of the Ecole Normale Superieure? How can you even really compare the two?

Quite frankly, even though Ohio State has been improving its image academically for about 20 years now, how is it even on that list at all?

Max Planck Institute, University of Tehran, ... aren't listed either due to restrictions on sensitive Physics and Engineering research.

I'm sorry, but is there something wrong with you americans? This is basically a list over the best universities/colleges in USA, not in the world. Just look at the top ten, ridiculous! Where is all the major universities from Europe?

Typical american behavior.

The list is Made in China.

072! Woot! Woot!

My alma mater is NOT listed: California State University at Compton

I must be a dummy

Barakus Obama wrote:

I'm sorry, but is there something wrong with you americans? This is basically a list over the best universities/colleges in USA, not in the world. Just look at the top ten, ridiculous! Where is all the major universities from Europe?

Typical american behavior.

How many Presidents have been Oxford grads?

buffet rule not wrote:

the shanghai list is a joke because it is completely skewed towards big universities that fund a lot of research that has absolutely no impact on what goes on at the undergrad level.

Any attempt to rate schools on "what goes on at the undergraduate level" is likely to be even more of a joke. What are they gonna do to figure out where undergrad education is best?

Also-- in the US-- while university-funded research does indeed exist (especially in the schools with huge endowments like Harvard)-- for the most part research is government- or even foundation-funded. These are third parties that-- to at least some extent-- objectively decide where to fund research on a case-by-case basis.

This is certainly a better approach than any alternative that I can come up with. The biggest problem is actually comparing universities in different countries.

If you think it's a joke-- what do you think should be done instead?

UC_Davis better than Vanderbilt?

The LRC crowd is an ignorant bunch of bores. I can't believe anyone here has ever set foot in a place of higher learning.

Freshman Applications wrote:

The best schools are those where high school students want to attend. The top 3 schools for freshman applications are

1 UCLA

2 Cal

3 UCSD

Perhaps there should be some accounting for population in that?

Not on the list. I are retard.

Freshman Applications wrote:

The best schools are those where high school students want to attend. The top 3 schools for freshman applications are

1 UCLA

2 Cal

3 UCSD

It just so happens to be that they are low cost and in state for the most populous state.

UCLA>harvard. lolz

Barakus Obama wrote:

I'm sorry, but is there something wrong with you americans? This is basically a list over the best universities/colleges in USA, not in the world. Just look at the top ten, ridiculous! Where is all the major universities from Europe?

Typical american behavior.

The top end of the US university system is the best in the world and it isn't even close

The list is from the Chinese and not the United States.

This list is wrong for many reasons, but the most important one is that it does not include Liberal Arts Colleges. The top 10 Liberal Arts easily make the Top 25 undergrad!

And Williams is Number 1!

Eph wrote:

This list is wrong for many reasons, but the most important one is that it does not include Liberal Arts Colleges. The top 10 Liberal Arts easily make the Top 25 undergrad!

And Williams is Number 1!

This is a list of the top universities. Liberal arts colleges are not universities.

Barakus Obama wrote:

I'm sorry, but is there something wrong with you americans? This is basically a list over the best universities/colleges in USA, not in the world. Just look at the top ten, ridiculous! Where is all the major universities from Europe?

Typical american behavior.

Ok, if you don't like that list check out the one from British-based THE. It's still dominated by American universities.

my uni was life and it always finishes top of any list like this