[BretLudwig]

Top Research Universities: The View from Shanghai

"Here's a different ranking of top research universities compiled at
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, based on Nobel Laureates, citations, etc.
(This is not a list of most desirable undergraduate colleges -- it
includes entities like Rockefeller U. that don't have undergrad
colleges.)

In 2007, The top 20 included 17 American colleges, Oxford, Cambridge, and
the U. of Tokyo at #20. The highest continental European university (ETH
Zurich) was at #27, the highest French college was at #39, and the highest
German school at #53. No Chinese or Indian universities are in the top 100
on this Chinese list.

This Chinese list seems less chauvinistically biased than the London Times
rankings I cited in tonight's VDARE article (Harvard #1 in both, but
Stanford is #2 on the Chinese list vs. #19 on the English list, behind a
number of obscure provincial colleges in England). Because it's a better
list, it supports the point I made in VDARE even more strongly than the
previous list did: that America's exclusive universities are now
enormously prestigious relative to Germany's and the rest of the world's.

German colleges that would have dominated the list 100 years ago have been
hit hard by sincere, leftist anti-elitism. The same thing happened to most
French universities after 1968, except for some small Ecoles. In contrast,
CCNY, which famously shifted to open admissions with disastrous effects, is
close to the exception that proves the rule that American colleges largely
ignored their own leftist rhetoric and refused to follow their European
counterparts into egalitarian anti-exclusivity."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academi...d_Universities


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