WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKING October 5, 2006
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The Guardian lists the top universities in the world:
1. Harvard
2: Cambridge
3: Oxford
4: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5: Yale
6: Stanford
7: California Institute of Technology
8: University of California, Berkeley
9: Imperial College London
10: Princeton
You might notice that these are all English speaking universities mostly from the US with some British institutions, which may be explained by the fact the assessement is by the Times Higher Education Literary Supplement. The article observes:
Beijing University and the Australian National University were the first outside the UK or US to appear on the list, securing the 14th and 16th positions.
Still it seems there are other rankings, but not much argument as to which are the best.
The University of Melbourne has again been ranked among the 100 top universities in the world in the prominent Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s (SJTU) Academic Rankings of World Universities 2006.
The SJTU has ranked Melbourne at a clear No 78 – jumping from No 82 in 2005. Melbourne has been steadily moving up the rankings since it first appeared in the SJTU rankings in 2003 at No 92.
Melbourne and ANU are the only two Australian universities in the top 100. Harvard, Cambridge and Stanford have again taken the top three places. Melbourne was also ranked seventh in the Asia Pacific region with Tokyo University in top spot.
I am not sure how these rankings are worked out, and I wonder why they do not assess particular faculties or departments. So what are the criteria for a good university?
Of course, seen from another perspective, this represents just another example of globalization.
ITS OBVIOUS THEY ARE THE BEST BUT WHERE ARE THE REST OF THE UNIVERSITIES IN THE WORLD?
I WANT TO KNOW BECAUSE I AM IN ONE OF THE BEST UNIVERSITIES IN GHANA WHICH IS ‘KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECNOLOGY’ BUT LOOKS LIKE ITS NOT FOUND HERE
THATS ALL I WANT TO SAY
Thank you very much for comments Abigail.
There is no doubt bias in the rankings, since the top ten here are either English or American. After all it it the education people receive that matters, and that has to do with the quality of the individual. For example, the University of Wollongong seems to do well in some rankings
I am very pleased to hear that Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology is an excellent university. There are many other institutions not included as well.
You prompted me so much Abigail that I have even signed up as an online alumni at Charles Sturt University – my other university.
By the way, if you check out the first of the automatically generated links, KNUST is listed as 78th in Africa. So there you are, Kwame Nkurmah University is not forgotten.