The QS Rankings, listing the world’s top 200 universities, came out this week. .
MIT was rated best for the first time ever, replacing Cambridge at the top of the heap. Harvard was listed third, and University College London, Oxford, Imperial College, Yale, the University of Chicago, Princeton and Caltech, in that order, round out the QS top 10.
The University of Texas, at number 68 moved up from number 76 in 2011. The other two schools from the state, Rice at #120 and Texas A&M at #165, both fell a few notches, but still remained solidly among the best schools on Earth
The QS table is based on measures of research quality, graduate employability, teaching and how international the faculties and student bodies are.
If the criteria had included things Texans deem important like football, all three Texas schools would have scored much higher. And if you considered variables like parties and the attractiveness of co-eds, several more Texas colleges would have made the list.
The US NEWS College Rankings have also come out. They list Rice (tied at #17 with Vanderbilt and Notre Dame) as the best school in the State. UT is tied with a batch of schools at #46. SMU shows up on their list at #58 although they did not make the QS top 200, and A&M is ranked #65.
The University of Houston made the US News list for the first time ever, and they’re ready to PARTY!
US News also has a list of the colleges with the most bang for the buck – using a formula comparing academics and cost, available student aid, etc. On that list, Rice comes in at #10, A&M at #19, and Texas doesn’t even make the top 50.
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