UM Ranked #15 in the World
The 2014 list of Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings is out and University of Michigan comes in at #15.
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014/reputation-ranking
Notables:
#10 UCLA (that seems a bit high)
#23 Illinois (highest B1G after Michigan)
#51-60 Ohio
Discuss...
March 10th, 2014 at 12:05 PM ^
Well this list is wrong and has no value because we're #1.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:10 PM ^
March 10th, 2014 at 12:12 PM ^
The scores are based on the number of times an institution is cited by respondents as being the best in their field. The number one institution, Harvard University, was selected most often. The scores for all other institutions in the table are expressed as a percentage of Harvard’s, set at 100. For example, the University of Oxford received 67.8 per cent of the number of nominations that Harvard received, giving it a score of 67.8 against Harvard’s 100.So I guess that's why the scores plummet after the top 6 - you only get points for someone thinking you're #1 in a field. Seems like that's subject to unreliable results.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:15 PM ^
Eh it's no worse than any other ranking system. They're all pretty ridiculous.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:56 PM ^
It's not as hard as that to get mentioned:
They are not asked to create a ranking or to list a large range of institutions, but to name no more than 15 of those they believe to be the best, based on their own experience.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:18 PM ^
March 10th, 2014 at 12:19 PM ^
Hmm strange i thought for sure the University of Washington or Colorado would top the list of the Higher Times education world.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:20 PM ^
What's wrong with UCLA? I probably wouldn't put them at 10, but can understand being +/-5 of Michigan.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:23 PM ^
March 10th, 2014 at 12:24 PM ^
Sorry hit button on iPhone and can't edit
March 10th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
i agree, if you look at 100 of these lists you will see 100 totally different rankings.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:37 PM ^
Why? Northwestern is a small private school that few outside the US know about. Illinois is a world class engineering school.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:54 PM ^
Yeah, because Illinois is sooo talked about outside the US. /s I guess from my viewpoint Northwestern has arguably the top journalism school in the country. Plus a top20 engineering program.
As for the poster below me... where does the article say it's based on graduate work only? I must have missed that.
You're right, my mistake--I saw the sample question's framing and thought the focus was entirely on graduate students, but I looked at the survey, and there are questions on both undergrad and grad reputations.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:40 PM ^
Remember that this is entirely about grad school, and that breadth is really important. It doesn't surprise me much that Illinois would have a broader set of top grad programs than a much smaller university, as great as Northwestern is.
One small data point also: Northwestern places a huge emphasis on undergrads being taught by faculty (at least when my wife was there a decade ago). This is great for undergrads, but probably a fairly big drag on grad students, who often get funding by teaching.
I'm pretty sure Northwestern funds their grads. Not having to teach more than some minimal amount to prove competence is generally good for graduate students, who (in most cases) are there to learn and research much more than they are there to teach.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:30 PM ^
As much as I like seeing UM ranked so high in the World, these lists are kind of useless and put together by randoms to get clicks. UCLA is great but I don't think even a UCLA alumn would say they are a top 10 in the world. Berkeley ahead of Princeton in reputation? And the delta b/w Harvard and the others is also completely exagerated.
These rankings have become like Buzzfeed, just lists put together by some random intern with the purpose of getting people to share them on social media.
And the metric they say they use "number of times cited" (which already makes no sense) is totally biased towards larger institutions... These rankings are just a total joke (plus we all know UM is #1)
March 10th, 2014 at 12:33 PM ^
I'd bet the intern who put this together has something to do with Stanford
March 10th, 2014 at 12:35 PM ^
I was going to say one of the Cal (Berkeley, Caltech, UCLA) universities. I was actually not surprised to see Stanford in the top 3.
March 10th, 2014 at 12:47 PM ^
Rankings don't matter, especially in March.
What are we seeded?
Yeah, I thought this post was for Basketball. #15 in the world sounded about right.
Meh. I'll wait for the AP poll to be released before I panic.
When I first clicked this link I thought it said 2014 list of "High Times" Rankings. #15 sounds about right
That UChicago and Johns Hopkins are part of the CIC, which is sorta B1G.
Hopkins will actually be playing a D1 sport for the Big Ten, which is cool. And counting them, PSU and Maryland in the Big Ten lax league, we will have 3 of the top 7 lax teams (according to current rankings).
UNIVERSITY | RANK | BIG RANK | |
Michigan | 15 | 1 | |
Illinois | 23 | 2 | |
Wisconsin | 28 | 3 | |
Northwestern | 37 | 4 | |
Penn State(YTPSU!) | 39! | 5 | |
Purdue | 48 | 6 | |
Minnesota | 51-60 | 7 | |
Ohio | 51-60 | 7 | |
Michigan State | 61-70 | 9 | |
Indiana | 71-80 | 10 | |
Maryland | 81-90 | 11 | |
Rutgers | 91-100 | 12 |
Not listed: Iowa, Nebraska
"list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands."
It was a nice read until I saw PSU @39. Nothing against PSU, but I would have expected them to fall around or below MSU & Indiana.
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Not sure if serious?
It's a nice ranking, but it reads like a who's who list as much as anything else. Yes, big-name schools earn that reputation to an extent because they do good work and get noticed, and I'm happy UM is well-regarded, but I don't know, NW is a REALLY good school that seems to be cast down with the sodomites, er, UT, which seems off to me.