Remember when we used to have phone books? That line from the "The Jerk" is going to be increasingly harder for young folks to understand or find the humor in it (especially since so few will probably have seen the movie) but I digress. My alma mater (Ph.D.) sent out an announcement that it was in the top 1.4% of the QS World University Ranking (c) 2019!!! Of course, a percentage value like top 1.4% is only somewhat informative because it does not identify the actual rank relative to all other universities. How many universities were ranked higher? 25? 50? 100? 250? All sort of questions arise: is the university ranked higher or lower than, say, the University of Jyvaskyla? What about Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University? Or, more mundanely, the University of Kansas? Oh! Who gets the bragging rights?!?
Anyway, if you want to see who ranks where, see: https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2018 The U.S.A. takes ranks 1-4 (MIT, Stanford, Haaarvard and Caltech) and the University of Chicago (when I was attending a structural equation modeling workshop taught by Karl Joreskog there back in the 1980s, a graffiti comment that I read while taking care of business in a men's room stall opined: "U of Chicago - the best second best college in the world"), ranked 9th. A few British universities (I forget who ;-) occupy ranks 5-8 and in 10th position is something called ETH Zurich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. WTF? So, 5 out of 10 ain't bad! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A! YMMV. -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@mail-archive.com. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=50942 or send a blank email to leave-50942-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
