New generation of elite universities rises around the globe

By Stephanie Simon
June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013

(Reuters) - Watch out Ivy League, there's a new generation of elite universities on the rise around the globe, according to a new "100 Under 50" report from Times Higher Education magazine.

Times Higher Education also compiles a more traditional list of top universities worldwide, regardless of age. Those rankings are routinely dominated by U.S. schools. This year, there were 76 American universities in the top 200, led by the California Institute of Technology, Stanford and Harvard.


I wander in the top young universities how many offer degrees by DL? I will check their web sites if they have English version.

 

If you are counting, you may have noticed that this is only seven American institutions. The eighth school on the list is Florida International University.

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The US higher education sector was pretty much saturated with top research universities by 50 years ago. Since then, UC Irvine (est. 1965) is arguably the only newly established US school that has gone on to achieve major research university status. This is admittedly a subjective opinion; I am defining "major research university" as "member of the Association of American Universities", which is probably the most commonly accepted definition in academia. None of the other US schools on the list are really regarded as top research institutions (at least for now).

Since the US research university scene is so mature, the US is not going to dominate on lists of "young" schools.

 

What does this mean? FIU is a public school.

 

The quoted news story says "eight American institutions made the list - all of them public universities".
The story then names seven American public universities:

- UC Irvine
- UC Santa Cruz
- UT Dallas
- UI Chicago
- GMU
- UMBC
- UT San Antonio

So the story says that eight US public schools made the list, yet it only names seven.
So one school is apparently missing, right ?

If you check the original list, you will find that the missing school is FIU.
FIU should be the eighth school on the list, but for some reason it was not named in the quoted news story.

 

GMU is building a reputation, especially in economics, but they are still far from the AAU.
The only DC-area schools currently in that club are Johns Hopkins and Maryland.
If they AAU did opt to invite another local school, it would most likely be Georgetown or George Washington.

Johns Hopkins, Maryland, Georgetown, and GWU are all classified as RU/VH schools by Carnegie (for "very high research activity").
GMU is not in that VH category, at least not yet.

 

Oh, thanks for the clarification. I figured I missed something obvious.