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The place to be for a PhD

I don’t actually have any plans to apply for a PhD right now, but if I were it would probably be at one of these places.

Blackjack and hookers meme
I’m gonna make my own university ranking, with blackjack and hookers!

Prestige plays a major role in academia. It’s why researchers dream of publishing their work in prestigious journals, like Nature and Science. It’s why you can find Harvard University sweaters all over the world, even though Harvard doesn’t actually have that many students. And it’s why people get all giddy about an opportunity to work or study at Oxford, even though there are plenty of other institutions that may have more to offer.

A decent chunk of a university’s prestige comes from rankings, of which there are many. .

While prestige can afford you certain privileges, it does not play that much of a role in your day-to-day life as a graduate student. Rankings tend to be based on research output and recognition thereof, but you’re likely more concerned about things like quality of education, facilities, student life, affordability, the likelihood that your supervisor will be a Machiavellian psychopath, or the university’s primary topics of research.

Most rankings are therefore kind of useless for students.

I’m going to exacerbate this problem by introducing my own ranking, the Toilet Paper Rankings, which is solely based on the number of summarised papers in which an organisation, which is usually – but not always – a university, is mentioned as an affiliation. The list is updated daily, although it usually only changes once a week, when I publish a new paper summary.

Toilet Paper Rankings

Link
RankCountryOrganisationPoints
1usCarnegie Mellon University11
2–3usMicrosoft8
2–3usNorth Carolina State University8
4–5nlDelft University of Technology6
4–5chUniversity of Zurich6
6–9ilBen-Gurion University of the Negev4
6–9sgSingapore Management University4
6–9ilThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem4
6–9deUniversity of Stuttgart4
10–27seChalmers University of Technology3
10–27usCornell University3
10–27nlEindhoven University of Technology3
10–27usGoogle3
10–27usIBM Corporation3
10–27auMonash University3
10–27nlOpen University of the Netherlands3
10–27caQueen’s University3
10–27usStanford University3
10–27fiTampere University3
10–27chUniversità della Svizzera italiana3
10–27chUniversity of Bern3
10–27fiUniversity of Helsinki3
10–27fiUniversity of Oulu3
10–27gbgb-engUniversity of Oxford3
10–27caUniversity of Toronto3
10–27caUniversity of Victoria3
10–27usUniversity of Washington3
28–68caConcordia University2
28–68auCurtin University2
28–68gbgb-engDurham University2
28–68brFederal University of Minas Gerais2
28–68itItalian National Research Council2
28–68nlJheronimus Academy of Data Science2
28–68jpKyushu University2
28–68seLund University2
28–68nlMaastricht University2
28–68usMassachusetts Institute of Technology2
28–68usNorthern Arizona University2
28–68usNorthwestern University2
28–68cnPeking University2
28–68usPivotal2
28–68caPolytechnique Montréal2
28–68usStevens Institute of Technology2
28–68usUC Berkeley2
28–68usUC Davis2
28–68gbgb-engUniversity College London2
28–68caUniversity of Alberta2
28–68nlUniversity of Amsterdam2
28–68nzUniversity of Auckland2
28–68caUniversity of British Columbia2
28–68caUniversity of Calgary2
28–68gbgb-engUniversity of Cambridge2
28–68usUniversity of Chicago2
28–68seUniversity of Gothenburg2
28–68nlUniversity of Groningen2
28–68usUniversity of Illinois at Chicago2
28–68fiUniversity of Jyväskylä2
28–68luUniversity of Luxembourg2
28–68usUniversity of Maryland2
28–68noUniversity of Oslo2
28–68deUniversity of Passau2
28–68itUniversity of Salerno2
28–68gbgb-engUniversity of Sheffield2
28–68usUniversity of Southern California2
28–68nlUtrecht University2
28–68nlVrije Universiteit Amsterdam2
28–68caYork University2
28–68chZurich University of Applied Sciences2
69–274dkAalborg University1
69–274fiAalto University1
69–274dkAarhus University1
69–274usAllegheny College1
69–274usArizona State University1
69–274usAugusta University1
69–274nlAvans University of Applied Sciences1
69–274cnBaidu, Inc.1
69–274ilBar-Ilan University1
69–274eses-ctBarcelona Supercomputing Center1
69–274deBauhaus-Universität Weimar1
69–274cnBeijing Institute of Technology1
69–274trBilkent University1
69–274seBlekinge Institute of Technology1
69–274caBloorview Research Institute1
69–274usBoeing Research & Technology Europe1
69–274usBoston University1
69–274gbBritish Geological Survey1
69–274usBroadPath1
69–274usCalifornia Institute of Technology1
69–274usCalifornia Polytechnic State University1
69–274seCarmenta Geospatial Technologies1
69–274deCISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security1
69–274usClarkson University1
69–274usClemson University1
69–274krClova AI Research1
69–274frCNRS1
69–274seCodeScene1
69–274usColumbia Basin College1
69–274usColumbia University1
69–274noConceptos Consulting1
69–274trCumhuriyet University1
69–274unDon’t Forget the Bubbles1
69–274usDrexel University1
69–274deEberhard Karls Universität Tübingen1
69–274chETH Zurich1
69–274nlExact International Development1
69–274usFacebook1
69–274brFederal Institute of Rio Grande do Norte1
69–274brFederal University of Amazonas1
69–274brFederal University of Bahia1
69–274brFederal University of Pará1
69–274brFederal University of Rio Grande do Norte1
69–274brFederal University of Sergipe1
69–274atFHV Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences1
69–274deFraunhofer1
69–274usFraunhofer1
69–274itFree University of Bozen-Bolzano1
69–274usGeorge Fox University1
69–274usGeorge Mason University1
69–274usGeorgia Institute of Technologyy1
69–274deHarz University of Applied Sciences1
69–274gbgb-engImperial College London1
69–274frInria1
69–274idInstitut Teknologi Bandung1
69–274gbgb-engIntruder Systems1
69–274usIowa State University1
69–274irIran Telecommunication Research Center1
69–274frIRISA1
69–274usJane Street Capital1
69–274usJet Propulsion Laboratory1
69–274czJetBrains Research1
69–274usJohns Hopkins University1
69–274krKAIST1
69–274usKansas State University1
69–274deKarlsruhe Institute of Technology1
69–274usKennesaw State University1
69–274usKent State University1
69–274gbgb-engKing’s College London1
69–274krKorea Press Foundation1
69–274seKTH Royal Institute of Technology1
69–274auLady Cilento Children’s Hospital1
69–274xxLeadership Footprint1
69–274deLeibniz Institute for Neurobiology1
69–274gbgb-engLeicester Royal Infirmary1
69–274nlLeiden University1
69–274usLoyola College1
69–274deMax Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods1
69–274deMax Planck Institute for Security and Privacy1
69–274caMcGill University1
69–274usMeta1
69–274esMeta41
69–274deMETOP GmbH1
69–274usMontclair State University1
69–274nzMultitudes1
69–274auMurdoch University1
69–274usNetflix1
69–274fiNokia Bell Labs1
69–274usNortheastern University1
69–274noNorwegian University of Science and Technology1
69–274noNTNU1
69–274usOakland University1
69–274caOntario Tech University1
69–274seÖrebro University1
69–274usOregon State University1
69–274noØstfold University College1
69–274deOtto von Guericke University Magdeburg1
69–274dePaderborn University1
69–274dePhilipps University Marburg1
69–274ptPolytechnic Institute of Tomar1
69–274itPolytechnic University of Milan1
69–274caPolytechnique Montreal1
69–274nlRadboud University1
69–274usRochester Institute of Technology1
69–274gbRolls-Royce plc1
69–274deRuhr University Bochum1
69–274deSaarland University1
69–274usSauce Labs1
69–274lvSEB Life & Pension Holding AB Riga Branch1
69–274cnShanghai Jiao Tong University1
69–274noSimula Research Laboratory1
69–274noSINTEF1
69–274nlSoftware Improvement Group1
69–274auSwinburne University of Technology1
69–274chSwisscom1
69–274auSydney Children’s Hospital1
69–274deTechnische Universität München1
69–274esTecnalia1
69–274usTexas A&M University1
69–274usThe College of William and Mary1
69–274cncn-hkThe Hong Kong University of Science and Technology1
69–274nlThe Liberators1
69–274gbgb-engThe Open University1
69–274gbgb-engThe Royal London Hospital1
69–274usThe University of New Mexico1
69–274nlTIAS School for Business and Society1
69–274nlTilburg University1
69–274itU-Hopper1
69–274mxUAM Iztapalapa1
69–274saUmm Al-Qura University1
69–274coUniversidad de los Andes1
69–274esUniversidad Rey Juan Carlos1
69–274brUniversidade Federal de Pernambuco1
69–274brUniversidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná1
69–274chUniversità della Svizzera italiana1
69–274esUniversity Carlos III of Madrid1
69–274ieUniversity College Cork1
69–274beUniversity College Ghent1
69–274chUniversity Hospital of Zurich1
69–274auUniversity of Adelaide1
69–274usUniversity of Alabama1
69–274chUniversity of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland1
69–274usUniversity of Arizona1
69–274usUniversity of Arkansas1
69–274eses-ctUniversity of Barcelona1
69–274chUniversity of Basel1
69–274itUniversity of Bologna1
69–274brUniversity of Brasília1
69–274usUniversity of California, Los Angeles1
69–274usUniversity of California, Santa Cruz1
69–274esUniversity of Castilla-La Mancha1
69–274esUniversity of Castilla–La Mancha1
69–274gbgb-engUniversity of Central Lancashire1
69–274dkUniversity of Copenhagen1
69–274deUniversity of Duisburg-Essen1
69–274gbgb-engUniversity of East Anglia1
69–274itUniversity of Florence1
69–274deUniversity of Freiburg1
69–274chUniversity of Geneva1
69–274itUniversity of Genoa1
69–274usUniversity of Georgia1
69–274deUniversity of Giessen1
69–274usUniversity of Hawai‘i1
69–274usUniversity of Illinois1
69–274atUniversity of Klagenfurt1
69–274gbgb-engUniversity of Leeds1
69–274gbgb-engUniversity of Leicester1
69–274frUniversity of Lorraine1
69–274deUniversity of Magdeburg1
69–274mtUniversity of Malta1
69–274caUniversity of Manitoba1
69–274usUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst1
69–274auUniversity of Melbourne Medical School1
69–274usUniversity of Miami1
69–274itUniversity of Milano-Bicocca1
69–274itUniversity of Molise1
69–274beUniversity of Mons1
69–274esUniversity of Murcia1
69–274auUniversity of New South Wales1
69–274auUniversity of Newcastle1
69–274usUniversity of Oregon1
69–274deUniversity of Potsdam1
69–274auUniversity of Queensland1
69–274frUniversity of Rennes 11
69–274itUniversity of Sannio1
69–274eses-gaUniversity of Santiago de Compostela1
69–274caUniversity of Saskatchewan1
69–274cnUniversity of Science and Technology of China1
69–274usUniversity of South Carolina1
69–274zaUniversity of Stellenbosch Business School1
69–274auUniversity of Technology Sydney1
69–274usUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee1
69–274usVanderbilt University1
69–274usVassar College1
69–274fiVincit1
69–274beVrije Universiteit Brussel1
69–274usWayne State University1
69–274usWesleyan University1
69–274noWesterdals ACT1
69–274auWestern Hospital Footscray1
69–274usWestern Michigan University1
69–274usWestern Washington University1
69–274nzWhitireia Polytechnic1
69–274usWilliam & Mary1
69–274cnWuhan University1
69–274usYale University1

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