Go Gauchos!

[Dinner]

It was a great school to attend and now a Dutch study has found UCSB to be one of the top 10 universities in the world. I'm sure I'll hear some sort of personal attacks from the usual nattering nabobs of negativism but they can stuff it.

http://www.kcoy.com/story/16318523/ucsb-ranked-top-10-in-world

[Dinner]

The top 25 universities out of 500 in the world.

Top 25 Universities
1. MIT
2. Princeton University
3. Harvard University
4. Rice University
5. Stanford University

6. Caltech
7. University of California, Santa Barbara
8. University of California, Berkeley
9. Carnegie Mellon University
10. University of California, San Francisco
11. Yale University
12. Ecole Polytech Federale Lausan
13. University of Washington, Seattle
14. University of Chicago
15. Georgia Inst Technology
16. Northwestern University
17. Colombia University
18. ETH Zurich
19. University of California, San Diego
20. University of California, Los Angeles
21. University of California, Santa Cruz
22. University of Pennsylvania
23. Rensselaer Polytech Inst
24. University of Colorado, Boulder
25. Weizmann Inst Sci

As the top 6 universities are all private this makes UCSB the best public university in the world even beating UCB. Woot!

[DaShi]

That Yale is below Harvard discredits that list. I guess it all comes down to money.

[regexcellent]

University of Virginia is better and has a more interesting history. **** California.

[Dinner]

Five out the top ten are in California with three being UC schools. There are three more UC campuses on the top 21 too. Not bad. CalTech and Stanford are private though.

It's interesting to see how this list differs from U.S. News' annual college rankings. In 2011 they had UCSB as 10th in the country but behind UCB, UCLA, and UCSD where as this list ranks UCSB just ahead of UCB which is something I haven't seen before. I would be interesting to read their criteria more closely to see how they arrived at their ranks.

What I really find amazing is that the only non-American schools on the list where two from Switzerland and one from Israel.

[SlowwHand]

Gauchos are so gay.

[onodera]

This is one strange ranking. I like The Times' one.

[Dinner]

Naw, as the school was like 69% female watching the fans jump up and down was very far from gay.

[Dauphin]

This is one strange ranking. I like The Times' one.

+1

[Elok]

I was hoping this would be about the Argentinian cowboy types. Those dudes are cool. Nuts to your mascots, or whatever this is actually about.

[MichaeltheGreat]

University of Virginia is better and has a more interesting history. **** California.

Go strum a banjo.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Five out the top ten are in California with three being UC schools. There are three more UC campuses on the top 21 too. Not bad. CalTech and Stanford are private though.

It's interesting to see how this list differs from U.S. News' annual college rankings. In 2011 they had UCSB as 10th in the country but behind UCB, UCLA, and UCSD where as this list ranks UCSB just ahead of UCB which is something I haven't seen before. I would be interesting to read their criteria more closely to see how they arrived at their ranks.

What I really find amazing is that the only non-American schools on the list where two from Switzerland and one from Israel.

Trolling for fun aside, I think those sort of lists are bull****. Obviously, someplace like San Diego State or any podunk-ass state school isn't going to be near the top, but you can skew and play weighting games to get any school slightly above or slightly below. Does UCSB outrank Caltech or UCB for physics? Not in this or any other ****ing universe. Then you can rank all sorts of extraneous factors such as social bull****.

[DaShi]

Perhaps its ranked on babes, which is what college is really about. That would allow Harvard to eek ahead of Yale.

[pchang]

Perhaps its ranked on babes, which is what college is really about. That would allow Harvard to eek ahead of Yale.

If that were the case, MIT wouldn't even be on the list.