{"id":54,"date":"2007-11-08T23:30:13","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T23:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2007\/11\/08\/thes-world-university-rankings-200"},"modified":"2007-11-08T23:30:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T23:30:13","slug":"thes-world-university-rankings-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/2007\/11\/08\/thes-world-university-rankings-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"THES World University Rankings 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the list is out again this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.topmba.com\/fileadmin\/pdfs\/2007_Top_200_Compact.pdf\">http:\/\/www.topmba.com\/fileadmin\/pdfs\/2007_Top_200_Compact.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boy oh boy.. notable changes in the rankings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UCL has the largest improvement, breaking into the top ten, rising from #25 in 2006 to #9<\/li>\n<li>MIT, Stanford and UC Berkeley charted the lowest rankings in years, ranked at #10, 16 and 22 respectively. If the rankings are to be taken seriously, does this mean UCL is better than MIT, Stanford and UC Berkeley? I leave that to the wisdom of the readers.<\/li>\n<li>LSE fared the worst of the &#8216;elite&#8217; universities, ranked at #59<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I heard about MIT&#8217;s position in the rankings, I almost choked and spluttered my drink. One of Imperial College&#8217;s goal is to emulate MIT and be the MIT of the UK. With its current position at #5, does this mean that it has now fared better than its role model?<\/p>\n<p>MIT, my favourite unversity (though\u00a0not my alma mater) used to be #3 (2004), 2 (2005) and 4 (2006). I find it hard to stomach the fact that it&#8217;s ranked #10 this year, lower than *gasp* Imperial and UCL! This is blasphemy!<\/p>\n<p>Things that didn&#8217;t change from last year: Harvard is still #1 (*yawn*), followed by Cambridge, Oxford and Yale, all three tied at #2. Looks like Cambridge&#8217;s got to pull its socks up if it wants to remain\u00a0second fiddle to Harvard as the world&#8217;s\u00a0best university, simply because other universities are catching up!<\/p>\n<p>And oh,\u00a0on the local front,\u00a0unfortunately, none of\u00a0the Malaysian universities made it to the Top 200 list. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, the list is out again this year. http:\/\/www.topmba.com\/fileadmin\/pdfs\/2007_Top_200_Compact.pdf Boy oh boy.. notable changes in the rankings: UCL has the largest improvement, breaking into the top ten, rising from #25 in 2006 to #9 MIT, Stanford and UC Berkeley charted the lowest rankings in years, ranked at #10, 16 and 22 respectively. If the rankings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":491,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1767],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interests"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/491"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shenhanlee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}