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THES Ranking

The Times Higher Education Supplement has recently released their World's Top 200 Universities.

Here's the top 10.
  1. Harvard U (US)
  2. MIT (US)
  3. Cambridge (UK)
  4. Oxford (UK)
  5. Stanford (US)
  6. UC, Berkeley (US)
  7. Yale (US)
  8. Caltech (US)
  9. Princetown (US)
  10. Ecole Polytechnique (France)
Now, this is the fun part. UM has dropped from number 89 from last year to place 169 this year. I wonder how their PR department will react to that. Oh, then again, I probably know what they'll do. Just like what every organisation affliated with the goverment, they trumpet every tiny achievement but shy away from the limelight when things go wrong. Also, USM is out of the list this year. My 'beloved' uni is also not on the list, no surprise there.

Some worthy mentions - either I know people studying there or I just have a good feeling bout the uni - are :

14. Cornell
15. Beijing U (highlest Asian uni on the list)
16. Tokyo U
17. University of Chicago
19. Melbourne U (highest Aussie uni on the list)
20. Columbia U
22. NUS
33. Monash U
38. Sydney U
46. Northwestern U
48. NTU (up 2 spots from 50 last year *sigh*)
82. RMIT (down from no 55 last year)
97. Nottingham U (from 170 last year)
121. Chulalongkorn U (yes, even Thailand did better than us)
143. Sheffield U
169. UM

The online version will only be released Monday but I happened to be able to download a pdf copy of the file from Jeff Ooi's Screenshots. I strongly encourage you to read his entry, and the comments from the public. Puts things into perspective. Personally, I like this comment.

If this trend continues, next year we will be out of the 200 list.
Then no need to worry lah, just be happy!
After all the sun still shines and we have enough rain.
Only worry is the quakes epicenter off Acheh is shifting north and maybe in a 100 years we also will have tsunamis.




Posted by loopy on Sunday, October 30, 2005 at 7:35 pm |

yes! i saw monash!!
LoL!! thx for the info anyway. Now i know how high and effective our university educational level in m'sia uni is.

Posted by Blogger Eratter | Monday, October 31, 2005 10:03:00 am  

Gotta give it to the people who managed to put UM on the top 100 last year man... Still in disbelief that it was that way... I'm just a bit dumfounded to find it could just by considering that it doesn't have Internet connection in some of the colleges... That is absolutely key man...

Just a note for you... NUS dropped 4 places...haha... we're going down... oh no... just hope by the time i graduate we're still above NTU.. ;p

Good analysing of the list, my friend... Totally depicts the tertiary education level in Malaysia at the moment...

Posted by Blogger JV | Sunday, November 06, 2005 6:04:00 pm  

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