The world's 11 top universities ... do you agree?

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This week, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) published its 2009 list of the best 500 universities. The annual ranking, which is in its seventh year, began at Shanghai Jiao Tong University as an attempt to measure the performance of Chinese post-secondary education relative to the rest of the world. But according to The Economist, it's since become "the most widely used annual ranking of the world's research universities."

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The ARWU compiles an overall ranking, but it also breaks out each university's performance in five subject fields (math, physics, chemistry, computer science, and economics/business) as well as in five broader fields (natural sciences and math, engineering/technology and computer sciences, life and agriculture sciences, clinical medicine and pharmacy, and social sciences).


In descending order:

11. Yale
10. Oxford
9. University of Chicago
8. Princeton
7. Columbia
6. CalTech
5. MIT
4. Cambridge
3. UC Berkeley
2. Standford
1. Harvard

:evilgrin:

let's not forget about the small liberal arts colleges, Carleton, Beloit, Lawrence, Macalester, etc. They offer a great education with small class sizes, direct access to full professors, etc.

I started off at a community college :hide: and then transferred to a large, impersonal state university. I managed to earn a degree, but it was not a pleasant experience. :thumbsdown:

n/t

a) We're No. 1. Harvard should be No. 11.

b) The elite school here in Silicon Valley is Stanford, with no extra 'd'.

Yrs,
K-A Y'85, cum laude

on Stanford

Someone probably got paid off.

Very often, you see top 10 lists. Why does this list go to 11?

I like your answer, too.

When you were in school, did an authority figure ever command you to stand in the corner of a room?

I take all responsibility for not proofreading, OK?

... in the world. I would expect to see some from non-English-speaking countries.

Wonder where the Sorbonne, University of Bologna, etc., fit in. And then again, that's quite Euro-centric...

why is our nation so fucked up?

:shrug:

(for the record, I went to MIT ...)

Number six worldwide is great!