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[Troll_Bait]

If you click here, you can see a list of the world's top 100 universities. Korea does not have any in the top 50. Seoul National University is at #51. China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan all have higher-ranked universities.

[loose_ends]

[Gamecock]

These rankings are stupid...generally, I think ALL of these ranking of universities are moronic, but this one is more nonsensical than many I've seen. It makes me wonder about the criteria...

SNU is a few place above the University of Wisconsin-Madison...ummm, yeah, whatever. I could go on...

[SPINOZA]

According to the top 500 I made a thread about, done by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, SNU was #164. There's hardly a dearth of other facts unflattering the world's 2nd smartest race.

Their methodology was "We rank universities by several indicators of academic or research performance, including alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, articles published in Nature and Science, articles indexed in major citation indices, and the per capita academic performance of an institution.

[pkang0202]

World rankings are worthless. University of Hong Kong is ahead of Stanford, Cornell and Carnegie Mellon, however, I'm willing to bet that 9 out of 10 employers will choose the Stanford/Cornell/Carnegie Mellon grad over the University of Hong Kong grad with GPA, Major, etc... being equal.

The best measure of a University are quantitative figures. Salaries, Job Placement, income levels, etc...

Lets be real here. Most people go to University to make MORE money than they would have with a regular high school degree. The best metric for judging a school's merit is through businesses asking the fortune 500 business which schools are the best.

Also, a lot of schools are missing. University of Virginia has been consistently ranked number 1 or 2 the past 11 years as the top public University in the US. It is consistently ranked in the top 25 when compared to ALL Universities in the US, yet they don't even crack the top 100 in that POS ranking.

[Gamecock]

Yes...no University of Virginia, but University of California-San Diego is there!!!!!!!!!

[bigverne]

[reactionary]

as it should be!!! it's a shame it's behind UCLA - surely a lack of athletics is to blame.

[whatever]

Ha! My school tied SNU...I can't wait to bring this up to k-friends.

[kotakji]

Yeah that list is particularly bad.

[pcs0325]

[komerican]

Koreans should ingnore these lists. Most undergraduate education is similar all over the developed world. The west, particularly, the US, has a comparative advantage only at the graduate school level because the DoD or US department of defense spends vasts sums of money for research.

So it makes sense to go to the west ONLY for grad school and not for undergrad, which as I say is quite similar. Much of the rational for these lists is basically marketing by universities.

Koreans should just go to korean universities and then go to grad school in the west. If you look at the executive line up of 1st tier korean companies all of them graduated from Korean undergrad universities and then got advanced degrees at western grad schools.

[jaganath69]

[Troll_Bait]

[CentralCali]

komerican:

Please tell us what your major was and what university deigned to graduate you. Your posts indicate Science isn't your field. The same can be said of Logic and English.