EPTThe paradox of schools and universities in America - Page 20
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Geo.Rion
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Lebesgue
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If you look at first couple of rankings that you find in google you will see that +60% of the score is based of the academic reputation + citation scores. This purely measures the quality of faculty not undergraduate experience or how smart are undergraduate students. Some ranking add metrics like ratio of students to faculty. This favors rich universities. Now, US universities have the best faculty because they pay better than other universities, they have better RESEARCH FACILITIES (no one cares about classrooms when choosing where to take academic positions) and as mentioned somewhere in the thread there is snowball effect meaning that you want to work with the best possible people in your field and usually they happen to be in US. Also, looking at the recent hirings in my field most of the best performing young faculty comes from outside US. Moreover, US PhD students are small minority - there are less than 20% of them at the top departments. My year there are 3 out of 20. Year above 2. Year below 4. | ||
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