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Cambridge knocks Harvard off the top of QS World university ratings
The University of Cambridge has knocked Harvard University off the top of the QS World University Ratings, as the U.K. establishment’s number of academic citations rose. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesGood news, never realised how expensive it was in the US. Hong kong is catching up rapidly.
Sep 10th, 2010 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Zethee
Sep 10th, 2010 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The comparison is inaccurate, Cambridge is a state-funded public university, Harvard is private institution.
So the real cost for an undergraduate course at Cambridge will be more than the 5,089 US dollars tuition fee they charge to their students, you will have to add the hundreds of millions of pounds Cambridge receives from British government education, teaching and research grants.
While Harvard University not only does not cost the taxpayers a single penny, but it is also a financially independent corporation that grants thousands of scholarships to people who can´t afford to pay for education.
In the end, it is probably more expensive to study in Cambridge.
“The QS rankings are compiled by surveying each institution’s reputation among academics and employers, the proportion of international students and staff, the number of citations and the ratio of students to staff.”
Sep 11th, 2010 - 08:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No mention of costs in the comparison, so Jose either didn't read the article or perhaps couldn't take it in.
How nice that a British educational facility is the best in the world. Time for Oxford to improve its game, perhaps?
Harrier61,
Sep 12th, 2010 - 12:58 am - Link - Report abuse 0My respects to Cambridge hard-earned rankings. Congratulations on that.
This is the comparison the article makes in terms of costs of tuition fees and the one I was referring to:
”It costs £ 3,290 pounds (5,089 US dollars) a year to study an undergraduate course at Cambridge during 2010-2011 compared with 34,976 USD a year at Harvard, according to each university’s website.“
Like I said,it is innacurate to say that ”5,089 US dollars is “the cost” per year to study an undergraduate course “compared” to a year in Harvard.
Definitely, we all know that £ 3,290 pounds is THE FEE Cambridge charges to undergraduate students, but the real costs, I don´t know, but it is certainly much, much higher than that.
According to new university rankings based on research impact (citations) just released by www.highimpactuniversities.com Harvard University is still the No. 1 today.
Sep 12th, 2010 - 04:30 am - Link - Report abuse 0Jose. I do not deny the figures quoted in the article. I simply point out that the rankings are not based on tuition costs. The basis of the rankings is shown in the article.
Sep 12th, 2010 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Harrier61, Zethee
Sep 12th, 2010 - 12:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Cambridge is a great university and if it is number one today it is because it deserves it. It is cheap for the alumni-ae under its endowment scheme.
But it is a fiction that Harvard is expensive. Ask any Harvard graduate about it and you will learn from them that Harvard is one of the cheapest universities in the world and that they even give donations to their alma mater long after they had graduated, a fine american tradition.
First of all you don´t need any money to go to Harvard, the whole scheme it´s all based on merit not on money and the school´s business is not the student´s tuition fees but their achievements.
Once you´ve been admitted to Harvard University, and that´s the hardest part of the whole process, after passing all the tests, all you need to do is to take your Acceptance Letter to any bank across the street and they will be very happy to finance all your education expenses at Harvard.
When you graduate, you´ll easily land a good job at any american, japanese or european corporation and for the salary that you´ll get, more than a 100 thousand US a year, paying your student loan back will be a piece of cake, it will be the cheapest bargain you ever get in your life.
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