Harvard tops Chinese university rankings

Harvard topped a ranking of world universities published Friday by a Shanghai college for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.The University of California at Berkeley was second, followed by Stanford, according to the list of 500 schools compiled by Jiaotong University's Centre for World-Class Universities, available at www.arwu.org.

Harvard topped a ranking of world universities published Friday by a Shanghai college for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US institutions and sharply criticised in Europe.The University of California at Berkeley was second, followed by Stanford, according to the list of 500 schools compiled by Jiaotong University's Centre for World-Class Universities, available at www.arwu.org.

Times Higher Education has released its 2013 World Reputation Rankings, which are based on the world's largest invitation-only academic opinion survey "to provide the definitive list of the top 100 most powerful global university brands."

Cambridge University has edged out Harvard to become the first non-US university to top a global ranking, according to a survey released Wednesday.The British-based Cambridge knocked Harvard out of the top spot for the first time in the seven-year history of the QS World University Rankings released by the London consultancy Quacquarelli Symonds Limited.The survey, which in previous years had been conducted with The Times of London, had six American and four British schools in the top 10.

U.S. News and World Report's law school rankings have come under fire from a prominent law professor and even a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

You don't have to graduate from an Ivy League with a degree in finance or economics to become one of the world's best hedge fund managers. While a bunch of the top fund managers did just that, not everyone follows that path.    We've included a round up of the schools that have produced some of the world's most successful hedge fund managers. Some of them might surprise you. 

In my mind, the way to start getting at the crux of the problem of why higher education costs keep going up is to try to put yourself in the shoes of the President of the University of Miami* in Coral Gables, Florida. Currently you’re ranked 47th on US News and World Report‘s “national universities” rankings. Naturally, you know that this is a highly imperfect methodology.