Web Popularity Contest: 4International Colleges and Universities

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4International Colleges and Universities

These guys list colleges by a web hit ranking, which has more to do with how famous a college is than how good it is. MIT ranks #1, Caltech is way down the list. It is a measure of how big a "name" your school has. University of Washington gets beat up a lot in reputation for being Seattle's "local" school, but ranks fairly high in national and international rankings. Worcester Polytechnic ranks no higher than University of Massachusetts Boston (where my wife went), even though it's a top tech school in Mass after MIT and Olin. But then she says she got great jobs compared to her friends who went to BU, Amherst and WPI. BU ranks higher than Brown (which is harder to get into). Santa Clara ranks higher than WSU Wash State, though WSU is huge in Wash.

I put in the top schools (they disable cut and paste on the web page!) and a few schools that we're looking at.

 

International higher education directory and search engine

Colleges ranked by web popularity in 200 countries

 

2009 University Rankings

Top 200 Colleges and Universities in the World

 

(MIT beats Harvard, Berkeley, and Yale)

1. MIT

2. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico

3. Harvard

4. University of California, Berkeley

5. Cornell University

6. Purdue University

7. Yale University

8. University of Cambridge, UK

9. Indiana University System

10. University of Oxford UK

60. University of Washington

63. University of California, Los Angeles

83. University of Southern California

89. University of California Irvine

101. Boston University

162. Brown University

382. Santa Clara University

757. Washington State University

789. Tufts University

1143. Worcester Polytechnic Institute

1221. University of Massachusetts Boston

1546. Seattle University

 

Popular college in North America http://www.4icu.org/topNorth-America/#

1. MIT

2. Harvard

3. University of California, Berkeley

4. Cornell University

5. Purdue University

6. Yale University

7. Indiana University System

8. University of California System

9. Stanford University

10. Penn State University

11. University of Texas at Austin

12. University of Michigan

13. University of Washington

14. University of Pennsylvania

32. University of Southern California

39. University of British Columbia

40. University of Chicago

44. Boston University

53. Oregon State University

57. University of Oregon

62. California Institute of Technology

66. Brown University

69. Drexel University

71. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute