Forbes: America's Best Colleges

In case you missed it, Forbes magazine came in early August with its list of "America's Best Colleges" "from the students' point of view." In addition to the listings, there are brief essays and opinion pieces, like Hana R. Alberts's "How West Point Beat the Ivy League"; Louis Menard's "The Marketplace of Ideas," and Jill Biden's "Consider Community College." You should probably take a quick look.

World Rankings Provoke Global Reaction

See the listing of the current top 200 universities, worldwide. Does this list matter? Some have suggested that few pay attention to world rankings. However, the media is paying more and more attention. The latest "Top 50" list has been published and here are some of the reactions by the top leaders at those schools. As well, Times Higher Education is exploring the reactions from the international higher education community:

In the US, which once again dominates the top of the league table, the Chronicle of Higher Education highlighted that 37 of the top 100 institutions are American, including six of the top ten, while the Ann Arbor News noted that the University of Michigan, placed 18th in the table, was the highest-ranked public university in the country.

Meanwhile, the news agency Bloomberg calculated that US universities occupy 20 of the top 50 slots and British institutions eight.

In Canada, much was made of McGill University’s appearance at 20th spot in the rankings, a fall of eight places for the country’s best-rated institution.