… in the Minneapolis Star Tribune notes that the most charitable description of what’s been going on at the clubby University of Minnesota medical school would be “bizarre.”
Thursday, September 16, 2010
QS World University Rankings
University of Minnesota
#96
University of Minnesota
#96
"ambitious aspirations to be one of the top three public universities in the world [sic]" (within the decade, i.e. 2014)
The clock is ticking...
Source:
1 Cambridge
4. University College London
6. Oxford
7. Imperial Collge London
15. Michigan
18. ETH
19. McGill
20. Australian National University
21. King's College
22. University of Edinburgh
23. Hong Kong Uninversity
24. Tokyo University
25. Kyoto University
26. Bristol University
28. UC - Berkeley
29. Toronto
30. Manchester
31 Singapore
32 Ecole Polytechnique - Lausanne
33. Ecole Normal - Paris
35. UCLA
36. Ecole Polytechnique - Paris
37. Syndney
38. Melbourne
40 Hong Kong U of Science and Tech
42. Chinese U. of Hong Kong
43. Queensland
44. British Columbia
45. Copenhagen
46. University of New South Wales
47. Peking
48. Wisconsin
49. Osaka
50. Seoul
51. Heidelburg
52. Trinity College - Dublin
53. Warwick
54. Tsinghua
55. University of Washington
56. Amsterdam
57. North Carolina
58. Technical University, Munich
59. Birmingham
60 Tokyo Institute of Tech
61 Monash
62 Uppsala
63. Illinois
65. UCSD
66. Ludwig Maximilian - Munich
67. Texas
68. Auckland
69. Sheffield
70. Free University Berlin
71. Geneva
72. Lund
73. Nottingham
74. Nayang Tech - Singapore
75. Helsinki
77. Glasgow
78. Alberta
79. Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci and Tech
80. London School of Economics
81. Southhampton
82. Leiden
83. Utrecht
84. Aarhus
85. Leeds
87. Purdue
88. York
89. University of West. Austalia
91. Nagoya
92. Durham
93. Moscow State
94. National Taiwan University
95. St. Andrews
96. University of Minnesota
We aren't even in the top ten publics in the US according to this ranking.
The hubris of the "in the world" part of our president and provost's boast is readily apparent. Perhaps this kind of thing sells to the Board of Regents, and to some students and faculty, but a boast like this continues to make us look both arrogant and stupid.
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