The THES World University Ranking was released late last year by the Times Higher Education Supplement. It attempts to provide a common scheme on which the best universities worldwide may be identified. Number one on this scorecard was Harvard University, followed by a three-way tie for second place involving Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale. The U.S. [...]
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The Insider has had the chance to review which articles are of the greatest interest to you, the reader, of Top Tier Insider, and it’s very clear that you want to see how the best colleges and universities rank versus each other, as well as against institutions outside of the Ivy League. Since we’re here [...]
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Although we don’t routinely cover graduate programs on Top Tier Insider, the Financial Times recently released its annual ranking of the world’s MBA programs. The top ranked school in the world is Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania; the Top Tier schools dominate the first ten with Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, and Chicago being mentioned in [...]
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It’s not too clear where this ranked list of the world’s engineering schools came from, but I do wonder about the relative placement of some schools. For example, I find it hard to understand the ranking of University College London and Indian Institute of Technology (both fine schools, by the way) above Stanford (where the [...]
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We really hate program rankings in general, because the outcome is so critically dependent on how the criteria are structured, but we also admit that we can’t resist peeking at the results. So here’s a recently released global ranking of economics programs that is especially remiss in providing details on its methodology, other than to [...]
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