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SFU 2008 ranking

Shi2
edited June 2008 in General
From wikipedia:
SFU is rated as one of Canada’s top universities as it was ranked 68th in the world and 4th in Canada in 2008 Ranking of World Universities.

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I'm not sure what the ranking is based on but I was surprised SFU ranked higher than waterloo and mcgill.

What do you guys think?

Comments

  • xxk1nky
    edited June 2008
    What, 4th!?!? That doesn't sound very accurate.

    Oh wait. It's from Wikipedia.
  • Student0667
    edited June 2008
    I just looked at the source of this boast and I want to ask, "who the fuc* run www.webometrics.info anyway?" If it is not a reputable source, then SFU's wiki page need to drink a nice cup of shut the fuck up.
  • wurly
    edited June 2008
    yea, the webometrics is a weird ranking

    I think one of the most reputable ones is Times Higher Education (although many will say that ANY ranking is biased and not reliable).

    http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2007/overall_rankings/top_400_universities/

    From this it looks like SFU is 10th in Canada and 139th in the world, which is pretty good I think considering all the ones above it are older and with med schools (except for Waterloo).
  • Insatiable
    edited June 2008
    McGill better than Stanford!? I have my reservations.
  • wurly
    edited June 2008
    I think that leads to another issue, reputation vs. objective data (or as objective as these rankings can get). These rankings use mostly objective data, (#of faculty with phds, class sizes etc.), but most people probably base their perceptions of universities on reputation.

    Since america dominates most things (check out fortune 500 companies and see how many are american), we probably know more and have a higher status attached to american universities than canadian ones. Not to mention that stanford students have created name brand things like yahoo and youtube, but who knows, maybe mcgill is better at things that like medicine, or chemistry or law that don't get as much recognition.
  • Agentbob
    edited June 2008
    In terms of student satisfaction, we rank pretty low. I remember reading an article in Maclean magazine that shows different student satisfaction rate among other Canadian universities.
  • triMOON
    edited June 2008
    SFU IS A PIECE OF GARBAGE
  • Ether
    edited June 2008
    So.. why do you go there?
  • Student0667
    edited June 2008
    I just did an in depth investigation of who is running Webometrics and it turns out that that website is run by some think tank in, of all places, the Kingdom of Spain.

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    Not that I have anything against Spanish people (in fact, I like Paella), but what authority do these Spaniards have in judging how good we are? They are on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, for god sake. Just stick with Flamenco, shut up, and leave the ranking to more reputable organizations in North America.
  • Broken Lizard
    edited June 2008
    man your so racist student, "OMG they are from spain, they don't know how to run a web site, let the North American's do it who are vastly superior to these damn spanish people"
  • lazyGUY
    edited June 2008
    Student0667;31966 said:
    I just did an in depth investigation of who is running Webometrics and it turns out that that website is run by some think tank in, of all places, the Kingdom of Spain.

    Not that I have anything against Spanish people (in fact, I like Paella), but what authority do these Spaniards have in judging how good we are? They are on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, for god sake. Just stick with Flamenco, shut up, and leave the ranking to more reputable organizations in North America.
    dude are u actually mad that sfu got a good rating, u do go to sfu rite?
  • primexx
    edited June 2008
    lazyGUY;31998 said:
    dude are u actually mad that sfu got a good rating, u do go to sfu rite?
    what, so just because we go to sfu we have to accept every good ranking of sfu even if it's wrong???
  • Broken Lizard
    edited June 2008
    primexx;32005 said:
    what, so just because we go to sfu we have to accept every good ranking of sfu even if it's wrong???
    no, but no need to be racist to the people who made the ratings
  • Student0667
    edited June 2008
    lazyGUY;31998 said:
    dude are u actually mad that sfu got a good rating, u do go to sfu rite?
    I am mad that the PR people of SFU, who are more than likely wrote much of the SFU article on Wikipedia, are using un-reputable sources such as Webometrics to advertise our school.

    I MUCH prefer honesty and truth in advertisement, not that SFU needs any because we and UBC pretty much have a monopoly of accredited institute in the lower mainland.
    Lazyguy said:
    dude are u actually mad that sfu got a good rating, u do go to sfu rite?
    Just because I go to SFU we have to accept that SFU is the best in everything? Do yo know what that reminds me of...

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    Triple said:
    no, but no need to be racist to the people who made the ratings
    You have to ask yourself a question: Who the fuc* are they anyway?
  • Broken Lizard
    edited June 2008
    Germany was the best in everything, lol
  • lazyGUY
    edited June 2008
    just because its not a reputable company, doesnt mean there rating is totally off. So how have the sfu people screwed u over in the past? lol triple speaks the truth, germany was better in most things.
  • siuying
    edited June 2008
    GERMANY WILL KICK PORTUGAL'S BUTT TOMORROW

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