The new QS rankings seem to reach a newer depth.
How can the folks at QS seem to justify
Nanyang > Princeton; NUS > Yale; Tsinghua > Pennsylvania; ANU > Berkeley; Fudan > UIUC; Birmingham > WUSTL?
What gives? How can QS seem to be more absurd than ever before?
Chine owns everything now. EVERYTHING!
It's measured with noise and the differences are not very big between universities. It's mainly about undergraduate education so what's the difference really: it's just p=mc where ever you go and even if you go to a prestigious school it'll just be some adjunct teaching you not the Nobel laureate.
OP, accept that America is in decline.
As a non american, I do believe that it is in decline but anyone would have to be retarded to choose Nanyang over Princeton even for engineering. And ANU over Berkeley?
OP, accept that America is in decline.
Doesn't even make sense for undergrad. This is the same ranking that places ANU in the top 10 Econ depts and university of Auckland above UPF
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2019
It's utter nonsense, somehow this sh** company has outstanding marketing skills - plus, in the age of internet, the press sucks, they're just looking for press releases to copy and paste. Sad, really
Everyone knows QS is a joke. Why even bother making a thread about it?
It's measured with noise and the differences are not very big between universities. It's mainly about undergraduate education so what's the difference really: it's just p=mc where ever you go and even if you go to a prestigious school it'll just be some adjunct teaching you not the Nobel laureate.
uh that isnt true in the UK at least, even really senior people still teach undergrads (which is a good thing)
OP here, I think the top places in the rankings are bought by a few universities (especially UK universities) or the rankings are deliberately manipulated to favour average Russell Group universities and other 'upcoming' Asian universities. (most followers of QS are Chinese folks it seems)
Just checked the web pages of the University of Leeds & few other UK universities. QS ranking for 2019 was published a few hours ago and the University of Leeds & others have already updated their web pages and they talk glowingly about their latest QS ranking.
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/index.aspx
https://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=34871
On the other hand, my alma mater UIUC hasn't bothered to update its ranking webpage for the last couple of years.
http://illinois.edu/about/rankings.html
Why are UK universities so obsessed with rankings? (Heck! Even the intro pages of Durham and Southampton mention themselves as top 100 universities)
OP, accept that America is in decline.
It isn't.
Everyone knows QS is a joke. Why even bother making a thread about it?
People from universities like NTU and Nanyang seem to have a soft corner for QS.
1. Russell Group is mainly a joke which is far beneath the stature of the Ivy League and AAU
2. Essex deserves to be singled out, as Essex : RG :: Iowa : AAU
1. Russell Group is mainly a joke which is far beneath the stature of the Ivy League and AAU
2. Essex deserves to be singled out, as Essex : RG :: Iowa : AAU
Iowa>Essex
THE world university reputation ranking is the best among all.
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/reputation-ranking#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats
Lol, you clearly didn’t go to a top school. There are places where Nobel laureates do teach
It's measured with noise and the differences are not very big between universities. It's mainly about undergraduate education so what's the difference really: it's just p=mc where ever you go and even if you go to a prestigious school it'll just be some adjunct teaching you not the Nobel laureate.
It's utter nonsense, somehow this sh** company has outstanding marketing skills - plus, in the age of internet, the press sucks, they're just looking for press releases to copy and paste. Sad, really
QS is an embarrassment.
UIUC is s**t in any ranking
UIUC is s**t in any ranking
You clearly do not know much about UIUC. It may have a below-average economics department but its engineering and science departments are top notch.