Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2011-12

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2011-2012/top-400.html

World Rank	Institution	Country / Region	Overall score change criteria	Teaching change criteria	International mix change criteria	Industry income change criteria	Research change criteria	Citations change criteria
	1	California Institute of Technology	United States	94.8	95.7	56	97	98.2	99.9
	2	Harvard University	United States	93.9	95.8	67.5	35.9	97.4	99.8
	2	Stanford University	United States	93.9	94.8	57.2	63.8	98.9	99.8
	4	University of Oxford	United Kingdom	93.6	89.5	91.9	62.1	96.6	97.9
	5	Princeton University	United States	92.9	91.5	49.6	81	99.1	100
	6	University of Cambridge	United Kingdom	92.4	90.5	85.3	55.5	94.2	97.3
	7	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	United States	92.3	92.7	79.2	94.4	87.4	100
	8	Imperial College London	United Kingdom	90.7	88.8	92.2	93.1	88.7	93.9
	9	University of Chicago	United States	90.2	89.4	58.8	Data withheld by THE	90.8	99.4
	10	University of California, Berkeley	United States	89.8	82.8	50.4	62.5	99.4	99.4
	11	Yale University	United States	89.1	92.3	55.5	34.7	91.2	96.7
	12	Columbia University	United States	87.5	89.1	67.6	Data withheld by THE	81.8	97.8
	13	University of California, Los Angeles	United States	87.3	85.9	41	Data withheld by THE	92.5	97.3
	14	Johns Hopkins University	United States	85.8	78.9	59.9	100	86.5	97.3
	15	ETH Zürich - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich	Switzerland	85	79.1	97.5	Data withheld by THE	85.8	87.2
	16	University of Pennsylvania	United States	84.9	87	34.3	41.9	86.1	97.9
	17	University College London	United Kingdom	83.2	77.8	91.8	41.4	84.3	89
	18	University of Michigan	United States	82.8	75.4	47.2	53.3	90	94.3
	19	University of Toronto	Canada	81.6	76.9	69	44.9	87.4	86.5
	20	Cornell University	United States	80.5	70.4	53.4	Data withheld by THE	87.2	93.5
	21	Carnegie Mellon University	United States	78.4	65.7	55	60.7	79.5	97.4
	22	University of British Columbia	Canada	77.4	68.6	88.7	40.6	78.6	85.2
	22	Duke University	United States	77.4	62.6	46.9	100	77.9	97.4
	24	Georgia Institute of Technology	United States	77	66.6	65	99.2	73.8	91.9
	25	University of Washington	United States	76.5	70.8	36.9	31.8	74	98.2
	26	Northwestern University	United States	76.2	66.3	35.3	56.6	75.5	98.6
	27	University of Wisconsin-Madison	United States	75.8	74.3	23.8	55.3	77.3	90.6
	28	McGill University	Canada	75.5	72.8	81.4	35.1	78.4	77.1
	29	University of Texas at Austin	United States	74.9	69.5	38.8	57.7	76.1	89.6
	30	University of Tokyo	Japan	74.3	86.1	23	76.6	80.3	69.1
	31	University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign	United States	74.2	67.9	50.7	Data withheld by THE	81.3	81.5
	32	Karolinska Institute	Sweden	73.1	69.9	82	78.5	73.8	73.1
	33	University of California, San Diego	United States	73	61.4	31.5	51.8	72	97.8
	34	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong	72.3	74	83.7	64.1	80.1	60.5
	35	University of California, Santa Barbara	United States	72.1	55	52.6	85	65.3	99.9
	36	University of Edinburgh	United Kingdom	72	63	79.8	41.3	61.4	92.3
	37	University of Melbourne	Australia	71.9	62.2	82.5	44.4	72.4	80.7
	38	Australian National University	Australia	71.2	62.8	93.8	41.7	75.1	72.6
	38	University of California, Davis	United States	71.2	68	51.4	52.5	68.7	83.4
	40	National University of Singapore	Singapore	70.9	65.7	93	60.7	79	63.4
	41	Washington University in St Louis	United States	70.5	64	45.7	Data withheld by THE	58.9	96.1
	42	University of Minnesota	United States	70	66.1	25.6	Data withheld by THE	72.5	85.4
	43	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	United States	69.3	67.6	20.2	35.5	62.6	92.6
	44	New York University	United States	69	60.2	38.1	30.9	65.4	92.3
	45	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München	Germany	67.6	63.8	54.3	40.7	59.9	84.6
	46	École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne	Switzerland	66.3	53.1	98.9	46.7	43.9	95.3
	47	London School of Economics and Political Science	United Kingdom	66	66.4	96	41.1	75.4	50.6
	48	University of Manchester	United Kingdom	65.7	59	80.4	37.7	61.1	75.6
	49	Brown University	United States	65.6	59.8	33.4	34.9	53.6	93.9
	49	Peking University	China	65.6	82.3	51.7	99.9	64.1	51
	51	Pennsylvania State University	United States	64.9	53.5	29.5	61.6	66.7	83.4
	52	Kyoto University	Japan	64.8	76.4	21.1	71.7	72	56.3
	53	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	64.6	56.4	25	100	51.9	92.3
	54	Boston University	United States	64.2	60.7	37.2	27.6	46.2	95.6
	55	University of Southern California	United States	64	65.8	41.1	99.3	48.7	80.2
	56	King's College London	United Kingdom	63.2	49.8	90	40.8	54.2	80.9
	57	Ohio State University	United States	63	61.8	42.2	49.9	56.2	77.5
	58	University of Sydney	Australia	62.4	55.4	88.1	92.1	65.7	57.2
	59	École Normale Supérieure	France	62	56.6	66.2	44.7	33.5	96.4
	59	University of Pittsburgh	United States	62	54.3	26.5	37.5	53.9	88.7
	61	University of Zürich	Switzerland	61.9	56.7	87.4	43.5	45.9	78.4
	62	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong	61.7	51	80.1	59	58.6	71
	63	École Polytechnique	France	61.5	50.4	86.1	63	38.8	89.1
	64	University of Massachusetts	United States	61.1	54	27.3	53.2	58.3	80.1
	65	McMaster University	Canada	61	41.9	72	97.5	49.9	85.5
	66	University of Bristol	United Kingdom	60.9	44.2	73.7	34.8	47.7	89.9
	67	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven	Belgium	60.8	52.5	56.7	99.9	64.7	63
	68	Utrecht University	Netherlands	60.4	42.8	58.1	59.3	53.2	85.7
	69	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen	Germany	60.3	51.4	48	32.7	50.9	84.1
	70	Vanderbilt University	United States	59.6	52.1	26.8	64.4	47.6	86.8
	71	Tsinghua University	China	59.5	74.1	33.4	99.8	70.1	37.4
	72	Rice University	United States	59	45.9	39.7	36.2	38	99.9
	73	Universität Heidelberg	Germany	58.7	57.1	62.3	37.6	41.5	78.5
	74	University of Queensland Australia	Australia	58.6	47.5	80.8	62.6	52.3	70.2
	75	Emory University	United States	57.4	48.4	37.3	34.4	39.8	90.9
	75	Wageningen University and Research Center	Netherlands	57.4	50.1	75.9	100	47.6	66.3
	77	University of Colorado Boulder	United States	57.3	39.5	30.8	Data withheld by THE	42.6	98.2
	77	Tufts University	United States	57.3	45.8	41.3	35.4	37.4	94.5
	79	Leiden University	Netherlands	57	45.4	54.4	48.6	55.3	71.7
	80	Lund University	Sweden	56.9	40.4	61.2	32.6	58.5	72.8
	81	University of Rochester	United States	56.8	47	45.7	36.4	33.5	94.5
	81	Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey	United States	56.8	51.6	25.3	Data withheld by THE	60	69
	83	Durham University	United Kingdom	56.4	32.5	75.8	30.5	37.9	96.2
	84	Université Pierre et Marie Curie	France	56	56.3	66.7	26.2	30.5	81.1
	85	University of St Andrews	United Kingdom	55.7	37.1	89.1	34.1	40.2	83
	86	University of California, Irvine	United States	55.4	36.2	36.3	45.6	42.3	93.5
	87	Uppsala University	Sweden	55.2	47.2	59.1	43.4	65.1	53.3
	88	Technische Universität München	Germany	55.1	50	65.2	47.2	37.1	76.3
	89	University of Notre Dame	United States	55	42.6	33.1	27.3	36.2	94.1
	90	Dartmouth College	United States	54.9	44.8	30.6	Data withheld by THE	38.7	89.9
	91	University of Helsinki	Finland	54.8	39.3	46.8	28.9	54.2	75.1
	92	University of Amsterdam	Netherlands	54.7	41.7	56.4	42.5	54.7	68.3
	93	Case Western Reserve University	United States	54.6	54.2	29.9	Data withheld by THE	40.2	78.4
	94	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea	54.5	64.2	29.3	100	54.6	47.1
	94	University of Maryland, College Park	United States	54.5	41.1	35.3	28.5	43.6	85.8
	96	Michigan State University	United States	54.4	47.4	34	28	49.6	73.6
	97	University of Arizona	United States	54.2	45.1	28.4	86	43	78.3
	98	Purdue University	United States	54	56.6	52.6	Data withheld by THE	49.4	57.8
	99	University of Sussex	United Kingdom	53.9	30.6	79.8	28.1	34.8	92
	100	University of Alberta	Canada	53.7

226-250

Drexel University

United States

Data withheld by THE

251-275

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

United States

Data withheld by THE

301-350

Washington State University

United States

Data withheld by THE

Do Some Asian Immigrant Overachievers Get There By Cheating?

Do Some Asian Immigrant Overachievers Get There By Cheating?

October 8, 2013

http://educationrealist.wordpress.com/2013/10/08/asian-immigrants-and-what-no-one-mentions-aloud/

This fellow is a fan of Steve Sailer, who is very much into comparing groups that compete for top achievers.

Asian Immigrants and What No One Mentions Aloud

By educationrealist

To continue my thoughts on college admissions and Asians:
Many people, reading of the clear discrimination against Asians, become all righteous, thinking of those poor, hardworking Asians. Come to America, work hard, and look how the system screws them.
But that reaction ignores the stereotype.
The stereotype, delicately put: first and second generation Chinese, Korean, and Indian Americans, as well as nationals from these countries, often fail to embody the sterling academic credentials they include with their applications, and do not live up to the expectations these universities have for top tier students.
Less delicately put: They cheat. And when they don’t cheat, they game tests in a way utterly incomprehensible to the Western mind, leading to test scores with absolutely zero link to underlying ability. Or both. Or maybe it’s all cheating, and we just don’t know it. Either way, the resumes are functional fraud.
... continued at link above

Asians Master the SAT But Is That Enough for America?

From Asian Week http://www.asianweek.com/2013/09/30/mandarin-returns-home-sat-scores-climb-for-asian-americans/

‘Mandarin Returns Home’ — SAT Scores Climb for Asian Americans

BY 

ANDREW LAM

 – SEPTEMBER 30, 2013POSTED IN: EDUCATION, NATIONAL, VOICES FROM THE COMMUNITY

[My commentary]Asians seem to have an unfair advantage in coming from a confucian culture where they have put top value on getting top test scores since the Mandarine examination days, when test scores for other groups have slowed their pace. Asian test scores have topped whites even with verbals since the 1990s, Check out the entire article at the link above, but here is the somber conclusion: 

Indeed, what’s barely explored, sadly, is the darker narrative, that subterraneous stream that runs parallel to this shining path to academic success. And for those who fail to make the grade, for those who buckled under the academic pressure, there’s often a profound identity crisis that often leads to disappointment, depression, and, in some cases, even suicide.

Besides, the real struggle begins after graduation. For many who did well on tests as students, that same momentum and drive fades when they reached professional life. Then there’s the glass ceiling that barely cracks: for despite enormous change and progress, there’s the persistent view of Asian Americans — preserving ties to their homeland and private cultures — as permanent outsiders.

The reality is that to become real mandarins in America, it takes more than high scores on the SAT.

Andrew Lam is the author of “Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora,” “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres,” and, his latest, “Birds of Paradise Lost,” a collection of story about Vietnamese refugees in the Bay Area, which is now available on Kindle. This piece first appeared on New America Media.