The Most Respected Universities In The World

Business Insider ^ | 03/05/2013 | Michael Kelley

[SeekAndFind]

The complete list can be found here:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2013/reputation-ranking

Hey, the university you went to should be on that list :)

[Gay State Conservative]

Osama Obama attended Harvard Law School....and graduated.That tells me *everything* I need to know about *that* particular institution of “higher learning”

[CaptainK]

For a supposedly dumb nation , we own the top 10.

[SeekAndFind]

We ought to ask ourselves WHO are studying in these Universities.

Many jokes have been going on on campus with some truth to them:

MIT means Made in Taiwan

UCLA means University of Caucasians Lost among Asians

[Buckeye McFrog]

For a supposedly dumb nation , we own the top 10.

Read the intro again. The list is all about BRANDING, not necessarily QUALITY. We just do a better job of promoting our schools than most. (very true, as you hear so many stories about blathering incompetents with Ivy League degrees out there, yet they have their boss snowed into thinking they're SOOOOOOOPER GENIUSES.)

[FewsOrange]

Antonin Scalia graduated from Harvard Law School.

[Vigilanteman]

. . . the brand evaluation is based on "the expert judgement of senior, published academics."

Yeah, that's the key. It all comes down to who is doing the rating. Not businesses evaluating the quality of the graduates, but navel gazing academics.

Still, I find it interesting that I have brothers with advanced degrees from two of the top 100 (Rice University and University of Chicago) and that Pennsylvania alone is home to more of the top 100 as the entire country of France.

[staytrue]

The top 3 should be MIT, Caltech, and Stanford.

They are the leaders in innovation, technology and engineering.

I think liberal arts which the other top ten excel in are overrated.

[martin_fierro]

[Lou L]

Wow, my alma mater...Pitt, is in the 71-80 group. Go figure.

[ro_dreaming]

I work at a very well known, but oft overlooked university. We’re not listed on this, despite having multiple Nobel prize winners on faculty. This despite being located next to a medical center that is without peer. This despite having very high profile alumnus, faculty, and being one of the premier research universities in the country, if not the world.

And we like it that way.

[dangus]

Not a measure of excellence, but of marketing and PR. UCLA graduates are shockingly ignorant. For general knowledge, I’d take a 5th-grader from North Dakota over a graduate of UCLA any day.

[reed13k]

Biased poll of the academics - No West Point or Annapolis? No Sandhurst?

[dfwgator]

Woo Hoo We’re Number 86!

[NEMDF]

So just this morning my liberal sister was gloating about how her son’s fiancee has been accepted at UC Berkeley for grad school. CRAZY

[InterceptPoint]

Wow. My Alma Mater UCLA beats USC, Cal Tech and Yale. I’m impressed.

[KingOfVagabonds]

My alma mater is #24, not too bad. Engineering and other sciences help keep Illinois’ ranking up there.

[Amendment10]

"Times Higher Education ..."

And who are the faces behide the Times Higher Education mask?

[Mr. Jeeves]

UCLA means University of Caucasians Lost among Asians

When I was growing up, Berkeley snobs called it "University of California for Low Achievers." :)