The whole point of this ranking is to gain as much self-interest as possible. I hate BS payola rankings that does not maximize my personalize interests, which is to help me get the best of everything regardless of what happens to others within the social confines of the world I live in. In my personal world, I believe everything should be based on a zero-sum game as along as it is legally compliant. I will let the government worry about the equality part. After all, you created this world when you opened your eyes and your mind. When all those things are shut, nothing should exist anymore in your world. This is an American led world despite whatever non-Americans think. As such, American and American aligned people’s opinions are the most important when it comes to anything important. This is no different from the past where the strongest and the most sagacious lead. Considering America dominate in almost everything, it doesn’t really matter what non-American locals think about whatever as long as the people and institutions of the most important country in the history of the world nods, then you know you made it.
The world is living in the universe of America, if you don’t like it, you can may possibly leave this world for another world. It feels so good and privileged to be an American and/or an American aligned person when others struggle to reincarnate into one in their next life times. Capitalism is wonderful. Ranking is out of 100. The country and/or region where the college/university is located is considered within the projected 50 year forward outlook period based on its relative global strength and potential funding powers. Rankings based on a 50 year outlook that covers essentially the entirety of one’s working and productive life-time. Unlike other rankings who are pretentious about lay people’s opinions are unimportant or bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate’s degrees have to be judged differently, I see these as nonsensical since most people don’t really give a d*** about such differences, they just need a reference point of the actual school. 50 year outlook based on smoothed out average expected outcome. I believe the best institutions can do whatever it wants to do and do it well. Therefore ranking majors and all that jazz are futile in the long-run. This ranking will only include the top 20 as anything below that are probably not worth ranking or pursuing specifically for. Even if the overall score is the same, there is no such thing as a tie. The difference in ranking between institutions with the same score is perception bias which in real talk it means people do have opinions. Cost of attendance for elite schools will likely be trending toward market rates whatever that is and are typically one-time costs. With more and more colleges getting on the free tuition train, cost of attendance likely would skew unjustifiably any ranking based on a long-term/five decades outlook.
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Ranking criteria
Money (M – Premium Over Par): Premium your school’s graduates may command above average rates over other schools’ graduates. Making more than your peers over time definitely adds up quick when compounding. 25 points max.
Power (P – Control): How much sway you may have in your job versus your peers due to the public trust factor your alma mater provided you with. For example, can you do whatever you want in a legally compliant way and everyone just smiles? This is an indicator of leverage. The stronger the control, the more power one has to say yes or no. 25 points max.
Respect (R – Rizzability): How much people get rizzed once they know where you went to school. This is a metric that measures prestige, interest and respect one receives which is important to one’s happiness in life. 25 points max.
Skills (S – Abilities): How much actual capabilities including soft and hard skills does earning a degree from your university get you over attending another school. 25 points max.
Rankings
- MIT (M/P/R/S 25/25/25/25=100) Top dog in STEM and strong in liberal arts during a time when STEM increasingly become important
- Stanford University (M/P/R/S 25/25/25/25=100) Top dog in STEM and strong in liberal arts during a time when STEM increasingly become important
- Johns Hopkins University (M/P/R/S 25/25/25/25=100) Surge in popularity with massive public/private funding and free tuition for many
- Harvard University (M/P/R/S 25/25/25/24=99) Balanced Development in liberal arts and STEM
- Princeton University (M/P/R/S 24/25/24/23=96) Balanced Development in liberal arts and STEM
- University of Oxford (M/P/R/S 24/24/24/24=96) Legacy school
- University of Cambridge (M/P/R/S 24/24/24/24=96) Legacy school
- University of Chicago (M/P/R/S 24/24/24/24=96) Midwest leader with balanced development in liberal arts and STEM
- University of Pennsylvania (M/P/R/S 23/24/24/24=95) Balanced Development in liberal arts and STEM
- University of California, Berkeley (M/P/R/S 23/23/23/23=92) Public school
- Caltech (M/P/R/S 23/23/23/23=92) Too small, too STEM dependent and even if it get to maintain JPL, it’s reputation is too one sided
- Yale University (M/P/R/S 23/23/23/23=92) Behind the times on STEM
- Columbia University (M/P/R/S 23/23/23/23=92) NYC dependent and can be too expensive
- Cornell University (M/P/R/S 23/23/23/23=92) Balanced development in liberal arts and STEM
- University of California, Los Angeles (M/P/R/S 22/22/23/23=90) In a large city with cheap tuition and strong liberal arts and STEM programs
- Tsinghua University (M/P/R/S 20/20/20/20=80) Will likely be a tier below the top 15 within the next 50 years but will lead emerging nations’ top universities
- Peking University (M/P/R/S 20/20/20/20=80) Will likely be a tier below the top 15 within the next 50 years but will lead emerging nations’ top universities
- IIT Delhi (M/P/R/S 20/20/20/20=80) Will likely be a tier below the top 15 within the next 50 years but will lead emerging nations’ top universities
- IIT Bombay (M/P/R/S 20/20/20/20=80) Will likely be a tier below the top 15 within the next 50 years but will lead emerging nations’ top universities
- IIT Madras (M/P/R/S 20/20/20/20=80) Will likely be a tier below the top 15 within the next 50 years but will lead emerging nations’ top universities
In the future, universities have to compete on the world stage in all fronts. This means many of the Ivy League schools that have not strengthened their STEM to world-class levels likely will fall behind probably causing effective disintegration of the “Ivy League.” DEI, legacy and financial handouts probably will need to stop as the game becomes more competitive and resources become more concentrated. This means the top students are gifted genetically with a prestigious background, smarter than their peers and have strong moral and work ethics. The best universities will still be in the US period due a variety of reasons. The English commonwealth system will only produce two top 20 schools and even so only because of historical reasons and concentration of Russell Group funding. Europe is too fragmented to be a united single nation within this century. Australia and Canada won’t be growing too fast and their resources are stretched too thin among too many schools. The big eight in Australia never had any consensus on who is number one in a country with only around 20 million in population. There are hundreds of colleges in Canada with only 40 million in population while the population growth is slowing dramatically. The Latin American countries including Brazil are in America’s backyard and likely won’t experiencing high quality growth any time within this century. India will likely become world’s third largest economy in less than a decade. India’s advantage in speaking English and its huge technically capable workforce will likely yield huge dividends for the county.
As countries continue to move supply chain out of you know where, India will be a natural destination for investments especially in infrastructure which will allow it to attract even more investments. Contrary to popular belief, AI won’t fully replace humans within the next few decades. Having lots of people who are relatively young is still a desirable trait in a country. Yes, the new Soviet Union will also continue to grow even though its momentum is declining. Their top two universities will likely remain in the top 20 due to unprecedented and unbalanced state sponsored funding pouring into those institutions. The funny thing is, they are likely going to involution themselves to death because no sane Western entity is going to willingly pay a premium or even regular Western prices for their goods due to many reasons which I won’t discuss here. While India will be participating in the low end of the supply chain for a while, their industrial profits will likely be exponentially higher than that of you know where due to the Western powers willing to give their contracts that pays standardized contractual rates to India. America’s number one enemy will eventually give up their efforts as it stands now as their structural existential well-being does not allow them to grant critical thinking skills to their people. Most of their qualified professors are Western trained, they will find it more and more difficult to recruit and remain the top Western trained native descendants as they seal off their countries and increase their hostilities against the West will lead to those people choosing sides, most likely the side of the Western world.