The QS Life Sciences Ranking Continued
Looking at the scores for the three indicators, academic survey, employer survey and citations per paper, we find the situation is similar to that of the engineering rankings released last month. There is a reasonably high correlation between the scores for the two surveys:
Medicine .720
Biological Sciences .747
Psychology .570
The correlations between the score for citations per paper and the academic survey are low but still significant:
Medicine .290
Biological Sciences .177
Psychology .217
The correlations between the indicator citations and the employer survey are low or very low and insignificant:
Medicine .129
Biological Sciences .015
Psychology -027
Looking at the top five universities for each indicator, there are no surprises as far as the surveys are concerned but some of the universities in the top five for citations do cause some eyebrow raising. Arizona State university? University of Cinncinati? Tokyo Metropolitan University? Perhaps these are hitherto unnoticed pockets of excellence of the Alexandrian kind?
Top Five in Medicine
Academic Survey
1. Harvard
2. Cambridge
3. Oxford
4. Stanford
5. Yale
Employer Survey
1. Harvard
2. Cambridge
3. Oxford
4. MIT
5. Stanford
Citations per Paper
1. MIT
2. Rockefeller University
3. Caltech
4. The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
5. Harvard
Top Five in Biological Sciences
Academic Survey
1. Cambridge
2. Harvard
3. UC Berkeley
4. Oxford
5. MIT
Employer Survey
1. Harvard
2. Cambridge
3. MIT
4. Oxford
5. Stanford
Citations per Paper
1. Arizona State university
2. Tokyo Metropolitan University
3. MIT
4. Rockefeller University
5. Harvard
Top Five in Psychology
Academic Survey
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
3. UC Berkeley
4. Cambridge
5. Oxford
Employer Survey
1. Cambridge
2. Harvard
3. Oxford
4. Stanford
5. UC Berkeley
Citations per Paper
1. UC Irvine
2. Emory
3. Unuversity of Cinncinati
4. Princeton
5. Dartmouth College
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why are Oxbridge always highly ranked in "reputational surveys" but lag behind in concrete citations? And a casual glance at the Medicine rankings reveals the absurdity...MIT ranked so high without a medical school, while Washington Univ in St Louis and Mayo are ranked so low. Any doctor will laugh at this ranking. I can't help but think that both QS and THES are ploys by the Brits to maintain the reputation of their schools so that the international fees will keep on coming...
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