World's Top 500 Universities

Complete list:

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006TOP500list.htm
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Top 25

Harvard Univ
Univ Cambridge
Stanford Univ
Univ California - Berkeley
Massachusetts Inst Tech (MIT)
California Inst Tech
Columbia Univ
Princeton Univ
Univ Chicago
Univ Oxford
Yale Univ
Cornell Univ
Univ California - San Diego
Univ California - Los Angeles
Univ Pennsylvania
Univ Wisconsin - Madison
Univ Washington - Seattle
Univ California - San Francisco
Tokyo Univ
Johns Hopkins Univ
Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor
Kyoto Univ
Imperial Coll London
Univ Toronto
Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign



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(Way Back Jack) wrote:
Complete list:

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006TOP500list.htm

Extremely weighted towards research universities in the sciences
(since most Nobels are in the sciences). Negligible weight for
actually educating kids

(Some plausible measures include percentages of enrolled students
obtaining degrees and advanced degrees, number of enrolled students,
student/faculty ratio (both undergraduate and graduate considered
separately), and to stress the international comparisons, a small
weighting for percentage of the country's professionals educated
domestically to a given degree level (an index that would apply to all
universities of a country, showing how well those universities serve
their populace), and another for number of degrees granted to
international students (which would be university-specific, again
considering graduate and undergraduate students separately), showing
how attractive that university is to the international community.
Finally, full-time tuition as a percentage of the average per-capita
annual income of the country, which rewards cost-effectiveness when
coupled with the other measures).

Not that I expect that anyone will actually do this kind of analysis.

lojbab

Bob LeChevalier wrote:
(Way Back Jack) wrote:
Complete list:

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2006/ARWU2006TOP500list.htm

Extremely weighted towards research universities in the sciences
(since most Nobels are in the sciences). Negligible weight for
actually educating kids

Weighted toward research schools, yes.

However, at Harvard, (as elsewhere except at e.g. MIT, CalTech)
most of the school is devoted to activities OTHER than science.

Undergrads and grad students in science are a distinct minority.
At Harvard, so called social sciences and humanities rule, and not
physics, chemisty, biology and math.