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amatulic t1_j3sruh9 wrote

Interesting that most of them are in the United States, and the relative movements among the top half of the chart are smaller than the movements in the bottom half.

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meomeomeo t1_j3vi79t wrote

Germany is usually underrepresented in these rankings since a lot of the research is not done by the university itself but by collaborating institutes like Fraunhofer, Max Planck, RKI and similar. It is just a different organizational setup that international comparisons do not take into account.

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IkeRoberts t1_j3t7wk9 wrote

USNews needs occasional movement among the top three so that the new ranking gets some press coverage. Once you get below the top 20 there is so much random variation that meaningless changes in a few statistics results in seemingly large moves.

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amatulic t1_j3tlo69 wrote

That reminds me of this academic paper cited in the Wikipedia article on Master of Business Administration. While this focused on MBA rankings and not overall university rankings, I found it interesting that a simple ranking made by combining incoming student GMAT scores with salary after graduation resulted in a ranking that well-approximated the rankings by publications like USNews and Business Week.

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