where is university of virginia? duke? emery? william and mary? vmi? annapolis? george washington? tulane? georgia tech? clemson? wake forest? virginia tech? if we include texas, then rice? smu? UT?
your rankings are completely subjective. can you tell me the quantifiable difference between the 50th and the 150th ranked university in the world?
I'll partially comply with your desire. As far as the quantifiable difference, I don't have time to work that out.
U Virginia, 100-150. Fell out of the top 100 in the last few years.
Virginia Military Institute is not in the ARWU rankings in the top 1200.
William and Mary. Recently in the top 500. No longer.
Annapolis is a NATIONAL university, so it is not particularly regional. Same with George Washington. Would you consider that Southern because DC was at one time part of Maryland? I don't think so.
Tulane, ranked between 300 and 400, and dropping like a rock in recent years.
Georgia INSTITUTE of Technology, top 100 - 150.
Duke comes in at 31. Respectable. Below the U.
Clemson, 300-400. Falling like a rock in the last 10 years.
Wake Forest, previously 152, now in the 300's.
Virginia Tech, consistently in the top 152 - 200.
Texas, ranked nicely at 36th.
Everyone of these World class universities rank below Minnesota.
Lets compare Duke and Minnesota.
Ranks Duke Minnesota
% grad students 72 387
% International students 175 304
% International undergraduates 254 256
% International grad students 250 377
Number doctoral degrees awarded 56 3
Total # academic staff 44 51
Total # academic staff (teaching) 44 83
Total # research staff 64 39
Ratio academic staff to student ratio 43 465
Total income 5 19
Income per student 20 119
Public sector income 78 10
Income per tuition 67 16
Research income 8 20
Research income per academic staff 35 61
Research income from industry 5 85
Total Nobel and Fields medals 97 36
Number highly cited researchers 24 19
Leiden ranking of research papers:
Duke 29
Minnesota 61
Performance Rankings of Scientific Papers NTU
Duke 17
Minnesota 21
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
Duke 27
Minnesota 9
Duke is a great university. No doubt about it. Minnesota kicks butt in some categories that produce real results.
If you want formulas, go geek out on your own. I am not the driver of the research on performance of schools. But, I find that the performance of research Duke and Minnesota are almost equal. Duke leads in terms of capturing dollars and making good use of those dollars.
Minnesota however, beats out 98.25 % of the top 1200 world universities in many categories
If Blasingame chose Minnesota, he was smart to do it over almost all the football helmet schools. Duke would have been the best of the choices in the South, by a wide margin. They have quite the academic recruiting tool. But, so does Minnesota, with an equally impressive list of credentials.
Only 2 universities of the top 35 come from the south. I cut it off there because I became board of a visual count.
The north had 15. The ratio is too huge to ignore. Some of those schools don't consider themselves part of the south, like Johns Hopkins.
