What is the main criteria for a University to be considered “good” or “top”?

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Or in other words, what makes a college “good”? I’m aware it may change according to the discipline, and that a college with an excellent law or business school might be lacking in the engineering part, but still…

Is it the number of papers published per year? Or the amount of ground-breaking discoveries made in there (perhaps that would be why the highest ranked colleges are quite old), or something else?

It just seem a bit odd to me that over the years, the top 10, 20 universities worldwide seem to be the same ones

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Perceived value, will pretty much answer of those questions. By creating the perception that a university is a cut above the rest through getting grants for research that isn’t even relevant to the education they are providing. In laymen terms it really comes down to how manipulative the board of the school is.

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