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Sep. 18th, 2010 04:25 amSo I was taking a look at the top 200 universities in the world and surprisingly enough, UW is 23. NYU however, is 60. I mention this because for me, it had been between those two schools. Since it would have been out of state tutition for me, NYU only ended up a few thousand (like $2-3,000) more so we thought the value would have been with NYU, but perhaps we were wrong.
Still, from what I hear from Kent (who goes to UW), NYC is about a hundred times better in terms of weather and general livability. Although, I'm not sure I would mind the dark, ever constant ominous clouds as much as he did. He's spoiled since Hood River is generally rather nice (even in comparison to Portland). That's what you get for living in the rain shadow of a mountain range. I can only image Seattle is on the other, more fertile side of the same mountain range and thus, probably has Portland-like weather, but worse.
Oregon, either of the state schools didn't seem to make it but I didn't expect it to. I mean UO's business program might be awesome and OSU's forestry/pharmacy might be good but overall, they're not exactly anything special. University of Manchester, where Kent will hopefully not hate as much as UW (despite the hassle in getting a visa and being late to the start of the new term), did make it at number 87.
I did find it surprising that the top twenty schools in the world are either in the US or the UK (but perhaps I shouldn't have been), with the exception of the University of Toronto and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. I didn't realize UT was that awesome (if I had to think of a great Canadian university, I would go with McGill -- which incidentally is only third in Canada because the University of British Columbia is better than them) and personally, I've never heard of that Swiss school... What was expected? Californian schools, are still awesome. And Harvard stands on top of them all. And heh, Oxford and Cambridge are tied. And boo to Boston University beating us by a rank. :(
Oh damn, I just wasted half an hour on this site. >< Need to get to sleep, it's getting late...
Still, from what I hear from Kent (who goes to UW), NYC is about a hundred times better in terms of weather and general livability. Although, I'm not sure I would mind the dark, ever constant ominous clouds as much as he did. He's spoiled since Hood River is generally rather nice (even in comparison to Portland). That's what you get for living in the rain shadow of a mountain range. I can only image Seattle is on the other, more fertile side of the same mountain range and thus, probably has Portland-like weather, but worse.
Oregon, either of the state schools didn't seem to make it but I didn't expect it to. I mean UO's business program might be awesome and OSU's forestry/pharmacy might be good but overall, they're not exactly anything special. University of Manchester, where Kent will hopefully not hate as much as UW (despite the hassle in getting a visa and being late to the start of the new term), did make it at number 87.
I did find it surprising that the top twenty schools in the world are either in the US or the UK (but perhaps I shouldn't have been), with the exception of the University of Toronto and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. I didn't realize UT was that awesome (if I had to think of a great Canadian university, I would go with McGill -- which incidentally is only third in Canada because the University of British Columbia is better than them) and personally, I've never heard of that Swiss school... What was expected? Californian schools, are still awesome. And Harvard stands on top of them all. And heh, Oxford and Cambridge are tied. And boo to Boston University beating us by a rank. :(
Oh damn, I just wasted half an hour on this site. >< Need to get to sleep, it's getting late...
