Tech schools rock

Nice to see this news -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the top University of the world. From the UK Guardian:

MIT beats Cambridge and Harvard to top spot in world university rankings
Cambridge has lost its place as the number one ranking university in the world, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the US university that specialises in science and technology, taking over the top slot.

MIT came first, while Cambridge, which topped the list in 2011, came second and Harvard third in the QS World University Rankings, published on Tuesday.

The QS table is based on measures of research quality, graduate employability, teaching and how international the faculties and student bodies are.

University College London, Oxford, Imperial College, Yale, the University of Chicago, Princeton and Caltech, in that order, make up the top 10.

The highest ranked institution outside Europe and North America is the University of Hong Kong, at No 23.

MIT, which tops the list for the first time, came first in 11 out of 28 subject tables published by QS in June. A sharp increase in the proportion of foreign academics on its staff � a measure on which MIT has scored relatively poorly in the past � tipped the balance in its favour in the overall league table.

I love that part of the ranking is the employability of the graduates. Considering that blithering idiot and Fauxcahontas Elizabeth Warren is a professor at Harvard, it's no wonder that their stature has dropped. I would be surprised if MIT had any xxxxxx_studies programs. They do have Chomsky and that probably gave them a couple point hit but overall, not too shabby!