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Re:Academic Ranking of World's Universities in Computer Science by zeteo on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:11PM (#2148569)
Warning: do not use this ranking to decide which schools to apply to. 75% of the criteria weight appears to be based on absolute figures (total number of papers, total number of Turing Awards etc.). If you'd prefer a school where 4 out of 15 profs have Turing Awards to one with 5 out of 150, this is not the right ranking to be looking at.
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Re:Academic Ranking of World's Universities in Computer Science by pmchiu on Thursday January 27, 2011 @12:43PM (#2148698)
I totally agree. It's such a piss poor way to rank universities I can't believe they published it. The data isn't even really complete so there are a bunch of universities (like the University of Waterloo) in the 76-100 ranking that should be in the top 30 that aren't because they haven't bothered to do all of their homework.
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Re:Academic Ranking of World's Universities in Computer Science by chrisaycock on Thursday January 27, 2011 @01:13PM (#2148818)
Especially since those Turing laureates aren't going teach most of the undergrad classes.
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