The Times Higher Education/Thomson Reuters World University Rankings for 2011-12 were released today and the , one of only five public US institutions to make the top 25 (UC Berkeley was the highest ranking US public at 10).
recently ranked the 91探花42nd among all national universities in the US, while the ranked the 91探花at 16.
These rankings help to validate the world class teaching, research and service that take place here at the 91探花every day. However, it is good to cast a critical eye on the business of ranking universities in general, and this published by Inside Higher Education does a great job of summarizing some of the questions we should always ask of such ranking endeavors.