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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Anonymous 0 Comments

Regarding your last point, if you are #1 in a ranking one year, you are likely to be #1 again the next year. Schools don’t really change and if they do, they don’t change all that fast. That’s why if a school dropped out of rank 1, it means they are probably rank 2. 

If you think about people in a high school setting, the top 10-20 students by GPA in freshman year is very likely to still be top 10-20 by senior year. 

Anonymous 0 Comments

In most of the case, it’s about research and researching staff. It has nothing to do with teaching quality, especially at undergrad level. My uni is top 2 in the country in my course, and I would say the education here is so shitty