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Hi Havfunonline2, thanks for this wonderful image. Could you pls. update it w the new Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings that came out in October 2009? In it, University College London is placed 4th in the world. Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Emanuel Kingsley (talk • contribs) 21:47, 26 December 2009 (UTC)

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Hello, I may be blind or mistaken, but I believe University of Washington at Seattle is somehow missing. UW Seattle has the rankings of 59, 16, and 22 for THES, ARWU, and Newsweek respectively. Unless my math is wack, that adds up to 97, which would place it between UW Madison and UCSD. I only notice this because I happen to go to that school (meaning there could be other schools that are also missing).Whsie (talk) 07:20, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

You are not blind or mistaken, I am going to redo the table, as I just noticed that the ranks go 16, 16, 17, instead of 16,16,18. I will check all the top 20 in each of the 3 rankings to make sure that there are none that are missing, thanks for bringing that to my attention.

~Havfunonline2

All changes made - the only 2 universities that were in any of the 3 rankings, but not in the table were the University of Washington, Seattle and the University of California, San Francisco. UW has been rectified (and the ranks updated), and San Francisco does not appear in the THES rankings, I believe because it is purely Graduate Students.

The version also includes: an updated ranking system (explained in the "Addition info" section), Whether or not the university is public, and the number of graduate and undergraduate students, for reference. --Havfunonline2 (talk) 22:27, 30 December 2008 (UTC)

Just wondering, but doesn't UBC belong in that list as well? UBC has a rank of 37, 34, and 35 from Newsweek, THES, and ARWU respectively. That is suppose to give it a rank of 24th with 112 points. Or what about University of Toronto? It has a rank of 41, 24, and 18 from THES, ARWU, and Newsweek respectively that would give it a score of 135. That would bump McGill out and UBC to 25the while U of T would take 21. That would also make more sense because people in Canada (I visit Vancouver often) often think of UBC and U of T before McGill comes. Hm, how did you use this system? It felt strange at first sight because UBC definitely had a higher overall rank than McGill from my memory. Whsie (talk) 09:38, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

After looking, I'm also wondering about Kyoto University (2nd most prestigious university in Japan). It has a 23, 25, 29 rank from ARWU, THES, and Newsweek respectively that would give it a score of 141 (#21) bumping U of T to #22, UCSD to #23, UW Seattle to #24, and UW Madison to #25. Whsie (talk) 09:53, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

After wasting more time, I also found ETH Zurich missing. It has a ranking of 24, 24, 26 from ARWU, THES, and Newsweek. That gives it a score of 149, good enough for #21. That bumps Kyoto University to #22, U of T to #23, UCSD to #24, and UW Seattle to #25. Whsie (talk) 10:01, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

- (Included for update purposes - Extract from a message from Havfunonline2 to Whsie).

Basically to save myself from having to do it for all of the top 80 universities, I simply included all universities that appeared in the top 20 of any list. As you say, a university that scores consistantly in the top 30 will score higher than say the Australian national university, I will now work on the list with you, if possible.--Havfunonline2 (talk) 14:24, 3 January 2009 (UTC)