It sounds good, doesn't it? Hahvahd reigns supreme at #1 on the latest university ranking by US News and World Report.
Well, this is the first time in 12 years that Harvard has been #1 by itself (it has tied for the spot before). For the last 8 years in a row, another Ivy has been #1 -- and that's been Princeton.
Princeton's #2 this year, so the Kremlin-on-the-Charles is happy, I'm sure.
#3 is Yale, with MIT and Stanford tied at #4, followed in rapid succession by Caltech, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia, Duke, and Chicago to round out the top 10. The complete ranking is here.
I give you the usual caveat that all school rankings are subjective and imperfect, the methodology is always debatable, etc. etc.
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Harvard is also the top ranked university in the world according to 2008 survey by the ARWU from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. That ranking is determined on graduates, prizes and awards and mostly research and then the citations referring back to that research. This year 8 of the top 10 universities in the world were American.
Each year the rankings come out another French bureaucrat resigns in disgrace because none of the French universities acheive very high ranking even though Chirac and then Sarkozey had made that a priority. But the education authorities won't pay to provide accurate translations of articles or research for the journals and then score low for lack of citations.
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