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re: Time Magazine Top 500 Universities in the World - just released

Posted on 2/3/26 at 7:42 pm to
Posted by ColoradoAg
Colorado
Member since Sep 2011
27105 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 7:42 pm to
A&M doesn’t have a ton of foreign students.
Posted by hogminer
Bella Vista, AR.
Member since Apr 2010
10345 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 7:44 pm to
quote:

14. Arkansas 486
15. Alabama N/R
16 LSU N/R

1 of these is not like the other.
Posted by GoGators1995
Member since Jan 2023
7420 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 7:44 pm to
This is a response thread because TS saw that UF is ahead of Texas in the USNWR rankings.
Posted by Volatile
Tennessee
Member since Apr 2014
6180 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 8:37 pm to
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They have Mizzou above Florida which invalidates the entire ranking. ETA: This is a liberal fantasy ranking. From your link: What if we could design admissions policies that are more meritocratic and increase socioeconomic diversity?


You do know the definition of meritocratic, don’t you?
Posted by Old Sarge
Dean of Admissions, LSU
Member since Jan 2012
62887 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 9:02 pm to
University rankings based on “wokeness”

Posted by Bama Bird
Pittsburgh, PA
Member since Mar 2013
22832 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 9:08 pm to
Does Tufts really impress anyone these days? This isn't 1820

ETA: 1850s, whatever. Literally no one has Tufts as their destination is my point
This post was edited on 2/3/26 at 9:10 pm
Posted by Shamoan
Member since Feb 2019
13683 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 9:10 pm to
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Time Magazine


1955 called and they want their shitty magazine back.
Posted by SingleMalt1973
Member since Feb 2022
23641 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 9:26 pm to
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15. Alabama N/R



No shite?…


Posted by Lynxrufus2012
Central Kentucky
Member since Mar 2020
19623 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 9:33 pm to
I guess West Point and the Air Force and Naval Academies are screwed.

Posted by terd ferguson
Darren Wilson Fan Club President
Member since Aug 2007
114641 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:04 pm to
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The proportion of international undergraduate students and the overall proportion of international students are used to capture the internationality of the student body.

The proportion of international faculty is also a relevant indicator of an institution’s global character and the internationality of its teaching environment.


So it's just a ranking of schools with the most DEI

Posted by TigerScorpion
Mississippi
Member since Aug 2018
1954 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:06 pm to
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Time Magazine Top 500 Universities in the World


Nah, this is Queer choice awards.
Posted by ColoradoElkHerd
USA
Member since May 2014
4656 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:10 pm to
Now rank number of Fortune 500 CEO's and starting salaries. The wokester journalists don't know their butt from a hole in the ground.

Op is an idiot for even referencing Time magazine. They push garbage as news.
Posted by ColoradoElkHerd
USA
Member since May 2014
4656 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:16 pm to
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Everybody else seemed about right except for maybe A&M being as low as it was.


Aggies shut down all the women's issues and transgender studies degree programs. Fired a professor who taught. men can have babies. Probably were dinged for that.
Posted by i sip tea
East Texas
Member since Nov 2025
146 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:22 pm to
Yup, not like ole College Station which is in no way totally overrun with ingrate foreigners.

Face it, we've all been had. Our ancestors build universities to educate us, and they just sell the seats to foreign governments.
Posted by DeathByTossDive225
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2019
7920 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:22 pm to
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I literally couldn’t care less that Auburn didn’t get good marks for its international inclusiveness.

International environments are cool, but it’s no way to evaluate a school.

These kinds of lists are always stupid because they focus on brands instead of programs.

Most people would not call LSU a top school globally, but if you’re studying audit — it is the #1 program in the world

Same could be said about many other programs and schools.
This post was edited on 2/3/26 at 10:25 pm
Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Georgia
Member since Nov 2011
4246 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:28 pm to
Let’s go with something more legit. US News & World Report

Public Univ. in America

#7 UF
#7 Texas
They have them tied.

#19 UGA
Posted by Havoc
Member since Nov 2015
38926 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:28 pm to
Queerbait.
Posted by Dirk Dawgler
Georgia
Member since Nov 2011
4246 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:31 pm to
Niche rankings for top public Universities in America

#5 UF
#7 Texas
#10 UGA

Along with Private Vandy, these are the 4 true academic Universities in the SEC.
Posted by Old Money
LSU
Member since Sep 2012
41658 posts
Posted on 2/3/26 at 10:42 pm to
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You have to respect places that aren't ashamed that academic buildings were erected around the football stadium solely for ambience.


Thats why I went to LSU
Posted by Govt Tide
Member since Nov 2009
9554 posts
Posted on 2/4/26 at 6:16 am to
Alabama is hurt in research based rankings like these because unlike most university systems who have their research metrics under one main university Alabama's is divided up between the 3 universities in the system. I suspect LSU's numbers are set up the same way.

The University of Alabama School of Medicine is entirely under the UAB campus (#137 in the rankings) and most of the engineering research is under the the UAH (#434 in the rankings) campus. If UA system was set up to where the main research offices were based at the main campus while maintaining a lot of the medical and engineering research at the UAB and UAH campuses then "The University of Alabama" would be ranked somewhere in the #100 to #120 school on the list.

UAB - #137
UAH - #434

Considering the fact that a lot of the undergraduate medical/engineering students at UA's main campus are tied in with the medical school on the B'ham campus and engineering students tied in with the UAH campus it's semantics. UA's main campus students in those majors are directly tied into the respective medical and engineering research whose research offices happen to be based on the Birmingham and Hunstsville campuses
This post was edited on 2/4/26 at 6:26 am
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