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?
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 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)
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.