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#1010111 - Wed Sep 11 2013 06:44 AM International University League Table :)
bloomsby Offline
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Here's link to a BBC website that reports a recent international university league table. Eighteen of the 'top twenty' are in the U.S. and Britain and the other two are in Switzerland. (The full table is much longer than twenty).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-24024767

I don't take such tables at face value, and it seems to me that there are some unacknowledged factors that boost the rankings of some British universities. The notion that Continental Europe has only two universities in the 'top twenty' and that both are Swiss strikes me as very odd indeed.



Edited by bloomsby (Wed Sep 11 2013 07:00 PM)

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#1010298 - Thu Sep 12 2013 08:58 AM Re: International University League Table :) [Re: bloomsby]
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Before I looked at the last one produced I suspected, correctly, mine was at the very bottom. If anyone wants to guess then go ahead, I'll reveal it but see if it's as predictable as I thought.
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