ShanghaiRanking's Academic Ranking of World Universities

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Which university is the best?? is Columbia really better than Caltech? Is Harvard actually better than Princeton. Is Cornell really better than Duke? This is like comparing Oxbridge.

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Have your own ranking.. but Why?

The university you go to will define your life - let's make sure you live the best life you can by applying the best thinking to your university decision.

So we will use logic and good reasoning. This will also be a blueprint for how to make good decisons - being holistic and systematic as opposed to more randomness, influenced by things that have different interests, imperfect logic or are incorrect.

How to rank unis:

Pick and choose - some of these will not be important to you. Then weigh - some factors will be more important than others. Every student will be optimising uni choice and life for different things. Some want to be successful in film, and not Finance.

• incoming GPA & incoming test scores (judging how smart people are)
• incoming achievements ((judging how smart & high-agency people are)
• Location (amount and strength of opportunities)
• Power of professional schools (judging powerscape of school in the world across all academic and professional world)
• Breadth of professional schools (judging academic landscape of school)
• amount of cultural capital - have they made movies or become massive artists
• % of grads that go into the companies you want (how effective is this school going to be for your life)
• % of grads that go into the industry you want (how effective is this school going to be for your life)
• % of people that start companies that do well (how smart & high agency people are)

• of alums that have created successful companies (how smart & high agency & professionally powerful people are)

• • of billionaires affiliated with the college

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• use online rankings as a guide - they are a part of the larger evaluation.

Now, you will find yourself being able to correctly distinguish between top options/unis that have similar strength of name.