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Contents: Elite U.S. Universities | Earnings | World Universities | Best U.S. Science Universities | Top 10 World High Schools | Nobel prizes | A couple of Universities I and family members have attended
Source: "The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings" (Census Bureau 2002)
At "Do Elite Colleges Lead to Higher Salaries? Only for Some Professions" - WSJ Feb. 1, 2016 they say,
Diplomas from prestigious schools boost future earnings only in certain fields, while in other fields they simply don't make a difference.
Specifically, for business and other liberal-arts majors, the prestige of the school has a major impact on future earnings expectations. But for fields like science, technology, education and math, it largely doesn't matter whether students go to a prestigious, expensive school or a low-priced one—expected earnings turn out the same. So, families may be wasting money by chasing an expensive diploma in those fields.
For STEM-related (Science, Technology, Education and Math) majors, average earnings don't vary much among the college categories.
The starkest earnings differences are for business majors, where graduates from the selective institutions earn 12% more on average than midtier graduates and 18% more than graduates from less-selective colleges. Likewise, social-science majors from selective colleges earn 11% more than their midtier counterparts and 14% more than those from less-selective schools.
For education majors, the differences are 6% and 9%, respectively. In humanities, graduates of selective schools earn 11% more than those from less-selective ones, although they don't earn more than those from midtier schools.
There are many possible explanations for the disparities. In business, more prestigious schools may offer better alumni networks and other connections with potential employers. In other fields of study, more prestigious schools may offer better peer connections, faculty, university resources and, at least in social science and the humanities, access to better graduate programs. "
Source: Best Universities and Colleges | Payscale.com
SeeAcademic Ranking of World Universities (www.arwu.org) - 2012 | |
1 Harvard 2 UC Berleley 3 Stanford 4 MIT 5 Univ Cambridge, England 6 Cal Tech 7 Princeton 8 Columbia 9 Univ. Chicago 10 Univ Oxford, England 2007 ranking (I haven't updated the rest of yet.) 11 Yale Univ 12 Cornell Univ 13 UCLA 14 Univ California - San Diego 15 Univ Pennsylvania 16 Univ Washington - Seattle 17 Univ Wisconsin - Madison 18 Univ California - San Francisco 19 Johns Hopkins Univ 20 Tokyo Univ, Japan 21 Univ Michigan - Ann Arbor 22 Kyoto Univ, Japan 23 Imperial Coll London 23 Univ Toronto, Canada 25 Univ Coll London 26 Univ Illinois - Urbana Champaign 27 Swiss Fed Inst Tech -ETH Zurich 28 Washington Univ - St. Louis 29 Northwestern Univ 30 New York Univ 30 Rockefeller Univ 32 Duke Univ 36 Univ British Columbia, Canada 39 Univ Paris 06, France 42 Univ Utrecht, Netherlands 43 Univ California - Davis 46 Univ Copenhagen, Denmark 47 Rutgers 52 Univ Paris 11, France 53 Karolinska Inst Stockholm, Sweden 53 Univ Edinburgh, Scotland 53 Univ Munich, Germany 56 Tech Univ Munich, Germany |
57 Australian Natl Univ 58 Univ Zurich, Switzerland 63 McGill Univ, Canada 64 Hebrew Univ Jerusalem, Israel 65 Univ Heidelberg, Germany 67 Osaka Univ, Japan 68 Purdue Univ 69 Univ Oslo, Norway 70 Brown Univ 71 Univ Leiden, Netherlands 73 Univ Helsinki, Fineland 76 Moscow State Univ, Russia 79 Univ Melbourne, Australia 95 Univ. of Virginia Following are the top schools in countries not listed above. 102-150 Univ Sao Paulo, Brazil 102-150 Univ Pisa, Italy 102-150 Univ Milan, Italy 102-150 Univ Leuven, Belgum 102-150 Natl Univ Singapore, Singapore 102-150 Univ Glasgow, Scotland 102-150 Univ Libre Bruxelles, Belgum 151-202 Natl Taiwan Univ 151-202 Univ Buenos Aires, Argentina 151-202 Univ Nacl Autonoma, Mexico 151-202 Univ Barcelona, Spain 151-202 Univ Vienna, Austria 151-202 Seoul Natl Univ, Korea 151-202 Tsinghua Univ, China 203-304 Trinity Coll Dublin, Ireland 203-304 Univ Auckland, New Zealand 203-304 Charles Univ Prague, Czech 203-304 Univ Athens, Greece 203-304 Univ Hong Kong, China-hk 203-304 Eotvos Lorand University (University Of Budapest), Hungary 305-401 Indian Inst Sci, India 305-401 Indian Inst Tech - Kharagpur, India 305-401 Univ Of Cape Town, South Africa 402-508 Univ Istanbul, Turkey 509-1000 King Fahd University Of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia 1,000+ American University In Cairo, Egypt 1,000+ University Of Tehran, Iran 1,000+ American University Of Beirut, Lebanon 1,000+ Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan 1,000+ Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Pakistan Pakistani Univ Rankings |
Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) World University Rankings 2006 1 Harvard University 2 University of Cambridge 3 University of Oxford 4 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4 Yale University 6 Stanford University 7 California Institute of Technology 8 University of California, Berkeley 9 Imperial College London 10 Princeton University
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U.S.News Rankings 20091. Harvard University 2. Princeton University 3. Yale University 4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4. Stanford University 6. California Institute of Technology 6. University of Pennsylvania (tie) 8. Duke University 8. Columbia University 8. University of Chicago (tie) |
The Washington Monthly College Guide 2005 (what are colleges doing for the country)
1. MIT 2. UCLA 3. UC Berkeley 4. Cornell 5. Stanford 6. Penn State 7. Texas A&M 8. UC San Diego 9. U. Pennsylvania 10. U. Michigan |
11. Johns Hopkins 12. U. WIsconsin, Madison 13. U. Illinois, UC 14. U. Wasington 15. Yale 16. Harvard 17. UC Davis 18. Northwestern 19. USC 20. U. Chicago |
See also:
Best US Colleges at the U.S. News & World Report
WeboMetric ranking of world universities
50% of the score was based on a Web Impact Factor, that combines the number of external inlinks and the number of pages of the website.
They also measured research output and prestige.
MIT | Stan- ford | Cal | Cal Tech | Har- vard | Prin- ceton | Cor- nell | U. Mich | Col- umbia | Yale | Univ. Chic. | UI- UC | Others in top 10 | |
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Biology | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 12 | 15 | 15 | 7 | 18 | 29 | Johns Hopkins, Rockefeller U., Scripps Rsrch. Inst (CA), UC-SF, Washington U. |
Chemistry | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 16 | 9 | 16 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 7 | Scripps Rsrch. Inst (CA), U. Wisc., Northwestern, |
Computer Sci | 1 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 8 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 18 | 5 | CMU, U. Wash, U. Texas, U. Wisc. | |
Earth Sci | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 15 | Penn St., U. Ariz., U. Texas | |
Economics | 1 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 1 | Northwestern, U. Penn, UC-SD | |
Engineering | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 23 | 18 | 10 | 9 | 19 | 37 | 5 | Georgia Inst. Of Tech., CMU, USC | |
Math | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 7 | 11 | 7 | 6 | 17 | New York U. |
Physics | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 8 | UC-SB |
Totals | |||||||||||||
Total #1or2's | 8 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
Total top 11 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | |
Other | |||||||||||||
Business | 4 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 37 | U. Penn, Northwestern, Dartmouth, NY Univ. | ||
Med (Rsch) | 7 | * 5 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 15 | see below |
Rankings change slightly over time. For example 10 years ago, 1997, MIT, Harvard, Cal and Stanford were tied for #1 in Biology and Cal was #1 in Chemistry with the other three tied for #2; In 2007 Stanford was #1 in Biology and they were all tied for #1 in chemistry.
Others (departments in top 11/15):
Univ. Wisconsin-3/7, Univ. Texas-4/6
Other:
Medical School (Research): 1. Harvard, 2. Johns Hopkins, 3. U. Penn, 4. Washington U. (St. Louis), 5. UC-SF, 6. U. Washington, 7. Stanford, 8. Duke, 8. Yale, 10. Baylor, Columbia, U. Michigan
Neuroscience/NeuroBiology: 1. Harvard, 2. Stanford, 3. Johns Hopkins, 4. MIT, 5. UC-SD, 6. UC-SF, 7. Yale, Rockefeller U., 9. Washington U. (St. Louis), 10. Columbia, Cal. Tech
1 Cambridge University 2 Oxford University 3 Harvard University 4 University of California, Berkeley 5 Massachussets Institute of Technology (MIT) 6 Stanford University 7 Tokyo University 8 Princeton University 9 California Institute of Technology 10 Imperial College London
NOBEL PRIZE SURVEY 2008 - institutions & universities
1. American Embassy School (Delhi) 2. Eton College (UK) 3. Dulwich College Shanghai (China) 4. Geelong Grammar School (Australia) 5. The Hotchkiss School (USA) 6. International School of Geneva (Switzerland) 7. Phillips Exeter Academy (USA) 8. Tanglin Trust School (Singapore) 9. United World College of South East Asia (Singapore) 10. Westminster School (UK)Source: Lifestyle Boutique
Cate Carpinteria, CA Thacher Ojai, CA Think global school San Francisco, CA Oak Grove school Ojai, CA Stevenson school Pebble Beach, CA Webb Claremont, CAA couple of universities I or family members have attended:
The U.S. scores in math and science for 13 and 14 year-old students has been in the middle, behind Poland and Hungary, compared to other countries since the mid 60's.
See International Testing in Math & Science.
Links:
World education rankings: reading, math and science? | guardian.co.uk
See Rankings at U.S. News & World Report
Best Colleges
Best Grad Schools
Academic Ranking of World Universities | Shanghai Ranking
WeboMetric ranking of world universities
Academic Ranking of World Universities (www.arwu.org) - 2007
Times World University Rankings at SocialCapitalGateway.org
Education levels by state
Educational Attainment: 2000 at census.gov
Donations/Giving