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TNDemo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 05:56 PM
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World's best universities.
The Times of London did a ranking of all the world's universities. The US has seven of the top ten. Here are the top ten with a link to the rest of the rankings:

1. Harvard
2. Un. Of California – Berkeley
3. MIT
4. California Institute of Technology
5. Oxford
6. Cambridge
7. Stanford
8. Yale
9. Princeton
10. ETH Zurich

http://www.coe.berkeley.edu/newsroom/2004/rankingsTimes.pdf

Go Cal!
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 05:58 PM
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1. Only one I'm not familiar with is the last one.
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President Jesus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 05:58 PM
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2. Where's Bob Jones University???
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Bouncy Ball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 05:59 PM
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3. snicker snicker
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Momgonepostal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 06:02 PM
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4. The US schools are all in blue states
What a shocker!

Cool too, that #2 is a public school. :-)
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 06:05 PM
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5. Never heard of ETH
But so what. Looks good for the USA
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RubyDuby in GA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 06:07 PM
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6. Funny
Edited on Wed Dec-01-04 06:07 PM by RubyDuby in GA
or sad. The US has 7 of the top 10 schools and yet still manages to crank out some of the dumbest dumbasses on earth from its educational system.

We could be so much better........
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Cuban_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 06:19 PM
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7. Kinda top heavy with Ivy League and Pac-10 schools...
Last time I looked, there were no flies on Northwestern, Michigan, Illinois or Ohio State...

:shrug:
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Menshevik Donating Member (674 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Dec-01-04 06:28 PM
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8. woohoo
LSE at #11!
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