Caltech edges Harvard as the best university

[alp227]

Source: San Francisco Chronicle

(10-06) 11:40 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- The world's greatest university (think Harvard) is not the world's greatest university anymore.

That honor now belongs to California Institute of Technology - Caltech - which bested Harvard University in this year's global ranking of the top 200 universities by Times Higher Education, a British magazine.

The small, private research institution in Pasadena out-performed Harvard, Stanford, and every other university in the ranking that looked at 13 performance indicators from teaching to innovation - as measured by income from industry - according to the ranking.

Harvard, nudged down to No. 2, shares second place with Stanford University this year. Both earned a score of 93.9, compared with Caltech's 94.8.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/10/06/BAD11LEC4R.DTL

[Ian David]

1. Of course they did...

[SkyDaddy7]

5. Love that show!! nt.

[frazzled]

2. Well, not to someone who wants to major in art history or German literature

The majors at Caltech are fairly limited, and many humanities options are not available.

I think all these listings and rankings of schools are ridiculous.

[xchrom]

3. +1

[provis99]

4. Caltech is a splendid institution.

Brilliant undergraduates. They compare in intellect to the undergrads at the U of Chicago or MIT. It ain't Arizona State, to be sure.

[Number23]

6. Wow. Yale dropped like crazy on that list.

These lists are interesting but I don't think they have very much impact.

[Turbineguy]

7. It's probably a prank

Caltech Students are famous for their pranks.

[tcaudilllg]

8. One too many extremist professors?

Of course Warren is an exception.

[bluedigger]

9. "as measured by income from industry"

So it's a totally objective ranking based on subjective importance...:eyes:

[Botany]

10. No way! M. Bachmann says the greatest school in the ...

.... history of world is Liberty University.

“Is there any better university in the history of the world?” M. Bachmann @ Liberty University 9/28/11

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/09/bachmann-suggests-liberty-university-the-greatest-in-the-history-of-the-world/


Caltech w/ all those Nobel Prizes and junk ..... nano technology, molecular genetics, and geophysics .... who needs that stuff?

[alp227]

11. SFGate's title at first had typo

but is now "Caltech edges Harvard as the best university"

[JI7]

12. they should rank the magazines and others who do the rankings

to see which media's ranking of colleges is the best .

[dameocrat67]

13. must produce a lot of neocon and neoliberal idiots

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