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Harvard Loses Top World Ranking to Caltech

• dragg

  7 Oct 11, 09:36

  Top 20 World University Rankings 2011-12:

        Institution                         Country
                1.  California Institute of Technology       U.S.
                2.  Harvard University                       U.S.
                2.  Stanford University                      U.S.
                4.  University of Oxford                     U.K.
                5.  Princeton University                     U.S.
                6.  University of Cambridge                  U.K.
                7.  Massachusetts Institute of Technology    U.S.
                8.  Imperial College London                  U.K.
                9.  University of Chicago                    U.S.
                10. University of California, Berkeley       U.S.
                11. Yale University                          U.S.
                12. Columbia University                      U.S.
                13. University of California, Los Angeles    U.S.
                14. ETH Zurich                               Switzerland
                15. Johns Hopkins University                 U.S.
                16. University of Pennsylvania               U.S.
                17. University College London                U.K.
                18. University of Michigan                   U.S.
                19. University of Toronto                    Canada
                20. Cornell University                       U.S.
                
  from bloomberg
  

• dragg

  7 Oct 11, 09:39

  i wonder what criteria they used to arrive at this conclusion.

• Rooney9

  7 Oct 11, 15:52

  where is NUS? thought they are in top 20?

• dragg

  7 Oct 11, 16:14

  why the top Us all US and england?  the top all caucasian universities!!

  amazing.

• lce

  7 Oct 11, 17:15

  i heard nus prefer lecturer educated at northern hemisphere

• Dalforce 25

  7 Oct 11, 17:24

  Originally posted by dragg:

  why the top Us all US and england?  the top all caucasian universities!!

  amazing.

  politics at work.

• Siliconchip

  7 Oct 11, 20:18

  Originally posted by Rooney9:

  where is NUS? thought they are in top 20?

  Dream on!

• Siliconchip

  7 Oct 11, 20:19

  I bet Moscow State's science is much better than Harvard, caltech and any others there. Dalforce is right.

• Fcukpap

  7 Oct 11, 21:06

  actually NUS and NTU not bad ranking....between 25 to 40 ....

• Fcukpap

  7 Oct 11, 21:09

  never amazing....based on all round criterias from employers choice...to salary to research...facilities....etc...

  the bosses of top companies are ang mohs....surely they will vote their own alma mater...that goes without saying....

• Bio-Hawk

  7 Oct 11, 21:22

  Originally posted by dragg:

  why the top Us all US and england?  the top all caucasian universities!!

  amazing.

  
  Yes and just look at the number of start ups from the Alumni vs NUS educated. Period.

• Siliconchip

  7 Oct 11, 21:49

  Originally posted by Bio-Hawk:

  
  Yes and just look at the number of start ups from the Alumni vs NUS educated. Period.

  true that.

• Rooney9

  9 Oct 11, 00:09

  actually our local uni except for SMU, both have sprawling campuses. Are Harvard or MIT as large campus as NUS or NTU? dun think so eh.

• charlize

  10 Oct 11, 19:06

  University of Michigan.

   

  Let's go blue!

• Rooney9

  10 Oct 11, 20:55

  Originally posted by charlize:

  University of Michigan.

   

  Let's go blue!

  why u studied there before?