>>11406404- Every rating puts the local schools at the top. You can't trust any ranking involving schools from the general region of the publication.
- Even if you could, have you looked at their choice of criteria lately? It's clearly being played to tell a story. Fucking diversity being as big a deal as the quality of research output. Seriously?
- At the post-grad level, ratings literally don't mean shit. You have to rely on specialization-level ratings, which can be objectively assessed by research output quality, a measure that's never tracked correctly (for example retraction rate, type of paper (is it just another review, is it a dataset, or is it actual research?), rate of invited speaker for specialized conferences, same for invited papers, etc.).
For almost every domain, the eurozone dominates. However there are some domains where the US is clearly better on average, such as most tcs disciplines.
(China is always at the bottom).
A handful of US schools are most definitely high-end, but the overwhelming majority of them are dogshit. The rate of good universities to bad ones is much worse in the US than in almost any european country. The main benefit of the US is that you have access to easily connected labs which allows much better interdisciplinary work. Europe has several such programs but they're still limited and few.
