Please forgive me (or not) while I brag about my university

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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With the release today of the US News and World Report’s list of university rankings, four internationally ‘recognized’ rankings of the world’s best universities have now all reached the same conclusion this year.

The University of Toronto is not just the highest ranked university in Canada (everyone knew that already ;)), but it is also in each list’s top 25.

Specifically, the U of T is ranked:

14[sup]th[/sup] in the world by US News and World Report

20[sup]th[/sup] overall by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings

20[sup]th[/sup] also by the QS World University Rankings

23[sup]rd[/sup] by Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities

So, now it is official: I am the best prof in the 19[sup]th[/sup] best university* in the world.

(*actually 19.25[sup]th[/sup], but who’s counting, eh?)

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Congrats! I do some adjunct teaching at my alma mater (Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio) and still have very warm feelings towards it, although its placement on the college rankings lists goes up and down every year.

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Bah…y’all don’t even play in the SEC. :stuck_out_tongue:

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it think that oversight is an indication that maybe you aren’t the best prof.

5

I just assume that UWaterloo was not considered for ranking, explaining its glaring omission.

After all, it could hardly be behind an institution whose best prof considers the arithmetic mean of four rankings to be a meaningful statistic. :stuck_out_tongue:

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The only time I’ve seen Oberlin mentioned in Sports Illustrated was when our football team was threatening to break Columbia’s record for most consecutive losses. Fortunately, Columbia’s record today remains intact.

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Well, we wouldn’t want every university in it. The division helps us know who to sneer at on the street (besides the obvious rivalries, that is).

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Undergrad Big East.
Law school Ivy League.
Grad school SEC.

Still love the Big East most of all.

Root for them all but,

Hoya Saxa!

Undergrad was the best!

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Hey, congrats, KarlGauss! Nice to see that sort of recognition for a Canadian university.

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I got a fine graduate school education, but I will never stop singing the praises of my undergraduate alma mater, the University of Michigan. If I’m ever rich, they will get all of my money.

(#14, baby!):cool:

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Ah, that school where the students not only don’t know the difference between Latin and Greek, but they’re proud of it.

–Chronos, Villanova '99

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Well done! I assume you’re responsible for at least half the awesomeness!

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I was please to see my alma mater had a second place and pair of fourth place rankings. Less pleasing was Ms. DrumBum pointing out that her alma mater, an obscure state school in the Berkeley hills, bested my school in the US News & World Report rankings.

On a more interesting note, I saw that the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland ranked #386 which might hurt their recruiting efforts next year. :smiley:

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Congratulations!

My alma mater (McGill) also gets praise fairly often. :slight_smile:

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Congratulations Karl Gauss.

My undergrad/grad school certainly ranks, but not as high as I would have thought:

University of California, San Diego.

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My wife was awarded the academic gold medal at St. Mike’s college at U of T.
You may touch the hem of my pant cuff.