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[hiro]

Haha, you still have crap like "Queensland." >_>

You need to name it "Outback" or something better,

EDIT: COMMA WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE YOU DON'T END SENTENCES THAT'S THE JOB OF A PERIOD

[ShinobiIceSlayer]

Yeah we should!

Anyway, mine Uni is rated 43^rd in the world...

[hiro]

I see. >_>

And Shikki's is sitting pretty at 28th.

And mine is 104. F***.

[ShinobiIceSlayer]

Shikki goes to
28    University of California, Berkeley (UCB)?

[hiro]

Yeah.

And I feel I have the right to complain about where mine is located on the rankings. >_>

Other lists have seen it as high as 10 for the engineering program, other lists have it lower. So meh.

[ShinobiIceSlayer]

Same here.

They made the claim when we start this year we were number 2 in the world for Engineering.... finding no facts to back that up.

[hiro]

I only heard about it by ear too, so I'll try to go find something.

[hiro]

Here we go. Straight from Wiki.

"The University is ranked 56th in the latest 2011 U.S. News and World Report rankings of "National Universities" across the United States, and it is ranked 18th nationally among public universities. 29 undergraduate and graduate programs are ranked in the top 10 and 90 programs are in the top 25.[49]
The Academic Ranking of World Universities compiled by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University ranked Maryland as 36th in the world as well as 8th among public flagship universities in the United States.[50] Newsweek ranked the University of Maryland as 45th in their ranking "global universities." The THE-QS World University Rankings ranked the University of Maryland 104 on its top 400 universities in the world in 2010.[51] In 2010 QS World University Rankings[52] ranked the university 104th overall in the world."

TL;DR:

So nationally, 56 overall but top 10 for a bunch of programs (including mine, I believe. Not sure), 36th worldwide from some study, 45th from another, and 104th from yours.

[ShinobiIceSlayer]

"According to the 2007 THE-QS World University Rankings, UQ is the only Queensland university in the top 50 (ranked 33rd along with the National University of Singapore), and one of only six Australian universities in the top 50.[1] In 2009, the university was ranked 41st, after University of Melbourne (36), University of Sydney (36) and Australian National University (17).[8] In 2010, QS World University Rankings[9] placed the university in 43rd (in 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and QS World University Rankings parted ways to produce separate rankings).

The Shanghai Jiao Tong University's Academic Ranking of World Universities also placed UQ among the top 10 universities in the Asia Pacific Region.[3] UQ was also featured in 2006 Newsweek and 2009 Global University Ranking of the world's top 100 universities."

And we go from 40's to 80's to just over 100's too.

[hiro]

Conclusion: rankings are BS. >_>

And now we have to make sure Shikki doesn't see this and laugh. Berkeley is definitely top-tier.

AND I COULD HAVE GOTTEN IN EASILY IT WAS JUST TOO COSTLY AND WHATNOT

[ShinobiIceSlayer]

I still don't know how I got in... my course is hard to get in...

[hiro]

Obviously you're a wizard.

[ShinobiIceSlayer]

Yep, I passed on my Hogwarts letter, cause it was too expensive to go.

[Omega Purple]

My friend goes to Berkeley! But she played both me and my ex and now she's continuing to talk to my ex. ;-; 

tears. salty, salty tears.

UC Irvine is ranked #1 in Most Asian School! >.>

[hiro]

Our school's pretty Asian. I'm not sure how much, though.