About the World's Best Colleges Rankings

world peace and global warming

this is our world and it is changing day by day due to the human activities so we shuld try to minimize that and we all should pay contribution for the improvemetn of our earth. so we should think of our world and environment

international ranking of universities--Shanghai

There have been many changes in curriculum,as dictated be the Bologna Declaration to

adopt the"LMD",namely the sequence from "bachelor degree"to"master of science"to

"PhD;"in teh European Union,by 2O1O;This is certainly a real challenge,as it takes a

lot of time to switch from the traditional scheme to the new one.Such changes require

patience and courage,as the three pillars of any sound educational system remain:the

linkages between"research","teaching"and"extension,"as was practiced in the US for many

decades,roughly since the enactment of the"Morril Act"in the 186Os.To switch from a tra-

ditional system to a new one requires (a)clarity of objectives,(b)coherence in the

tri-partite sequence,i.e.,research,teaching,and extension.All in all,this new scheme is

nothing but a translation of the so-called"Engine of growth"as put forward by the Univer-

sity of Chicago,in the early 196Os as echoed by the late Professor Theodore w.schultz

who share the Nobel Prize of Economics,in 1979,with Professor Arthur Lewis,even though

theirs theories of growth are opposite to each other.Finally,the"learning to learn"

concept has been in the forefront ,replacing the so-called"learning to do,"as the Scholar

from the University of Chicago,Mary Bowman,expressed it"learning to learn is more impotant than learning to do,;;;;;"

business mangement

A University in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas area is extremely careful with respect to the College of Business. The UNIVERSITY OG TEXAS AT ARLINGTON appeals on a world-wide (including China) basis and is considered selective in Texas. With over 5,000 students in the college of Business with high admission standards I would rather hire a student who is trained in the broader competitive market tradition. Dallas Fort Worth is the number one metroplex in obtaining jobs for new graduates. Any student graduating from a "rust belt" university is choosing to be unemployed. Job fairs on compus are obviously bias toward Texas (DFW) trained graduates.

Very UK and AUS centered. Gives some disadvantage to superior US and Canadian schools. USA>UK and CAN>AUS is generally the acccepted rankings today, and yet the rankings put many more UK above US schools and AUS above CAN schools than can be justified. The variables that are chosen at least seem to be benefitting the UK and AUS a lot.

The QS ranking seems to give Australian and UK universities a much more prominent position in international rankings than they traditionally enjoy via other rankings. The ONLY UK universities that should be present in the top 10 are Oxford and Cambridge, which are generally the only ones that can compete against Harvard and Yale (only those 4 could be #1 without anyone raising an eyebrow). Since when did ICL and UCL of the UK beat Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, and Princeton? Oxford and Cambridge are world class, but not ICL and UCL, at least not in comparison to MIT and Stanford. Since when did Australia National University beat out McGill, UBC and Toronto? Generally speaking, the Canadian university system is considered superior to the Austrlian system.

Seems like the rankings are putting the Commonwealth universities slightly higher than they should be (especially in comparison to USA and CAN, and although CAN is a commonwealth country, its educational structure is much more similar to the USA, which clumps it closer to the US than UK, which I bet is what made QS shove them down in comparison to the AUS who follow the UK system more faithfully).

I personally prefer the ARWU rankings (except for that one year where they overvalued Peking a bit too much despite it not having even one nobel laureate, but it did drop 100 spots the year after, which shows some accountability).

USNEWS should make their own.

whose ranking: QS or US News & world report

I was surprised that US News & world report copied QS ranking. Why didn't you use ARWU ranking or make judgement yourself. Some of the numbers did not make any sense even compare your own US college ranking. I don't believe Standford and Berkely is ranking at 17 & 36.Both of them have very good reputation in the world (much better than Univ of Hong Kong) ARWU is using similar methodology and ranks Standford & Berkeley as #2 & #3

The only reason I subscribed US News & world report is to read those rankings from your staffs not copy from some unknown organizations.