Posted on 03/05/2013 8:34:57 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Times Higher Education has released its 2013 World Reputation Rankings, which are based on the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey "to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands."
Although the reputation rankings aren't as objective as their annual World University Rankings — which employs 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators — the brand evaluation is based on "the expert judgement of senior, published academics."
Australia stepped up to the world stage as it now has six universities represented in the top 100 while the UK has lost three institutions from the world top 100 list since the first reputation rankings in 2011.
In the U.S. the University of Massachusetts has fallen from 19th to 42nd since 2011 while John Hopkins has dropped to 14th from 19th in 2011. New York University has risen 29 from the 51-60 group in '11.
Here's the top 10 (along with their overall score):
1 Harvard University United States 100.0
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology United States 87.6
3 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 81.3
4 University of Oxford United Kingdom 73.0
5 University of California, Berkeley United States 72.4
6 Stanford University United States 70.6
7 Princeton University United States 36.2
8 University of California, Los Angeles United States 35.6
9 University of Tokyo Japan 32.9
10 Yale University United States 32.8
The U.S. continues to dominate the list with 11 of the top 15 and 43 universities total (the next highest is the UK with nine total). Twenty countries are represented in the list:
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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 :)
For a supposedly dumb nation , we own the top 10.
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
Antonin Scalia graduated from Harvard Law School.
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.
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.
Wow, my alma mater...Pitt, is in the 71-80 group. Go figure.
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.
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.
Biased poll of the academics - No West Point or Annapolis? No Sandhurst?
Woo Hoo We’re Number 86!
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
Wow. My Alma Mater UCLA beats USC, Cal Tech and Yale. I’m impressed.
My alma mater is #24, not too bad. Engineering and other sciences help keep Illinois’ ranking up there.
And who are the faces behide the Times Higher Education mask?
When I was growing up, Berkeley snobs called it "University of California for Low Achievers." :)
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