Thursday, September 16, 2010

QS World University Rankings

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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