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There has been a lot of turmoil in the field of mathematics.
The domestic rankings of Qufu Normal University and Shandong University of Science and Technology in mathematics have rushed to the top of the global rankings.
Two colleges that were not well-known originally, surrounded Peking University Mathematics one after another, and left Fudan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and Tsinghua University behind them, revealing the vitality of an emerging force.
As soon as this ranking came out, someone immediately came here-“Is it time to apply for a PhD in Mathematics at Qu Normal University?”
A warm reminder from netizens:
It may be too late, but you may be able to get a master’s degree in mathematics from Peking University before you can fight for this qualification.
1. Qu Normal University is ranked 19th in the world in mathematics and 23rd in Peking University
Someone is eager to ask whether this list is a joint exclusive sponsorship of Qushi University and Shan University of Science and Technology.
The answer is really no.
The list comes from the U.S. News World University Rankings in 2021, officially launched by the US “U.S. News and Global Report” around October 20.
In the world’s best university rankings, Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University and other prestigious universities have been ranked at the top of the comprehensive list as usual, which is almost the same as the U.S. News World University Rankings over the years and other similar lists.
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The performance of mainland Chinese universities in the U.S. News world university list is basically expected:
Tsinghua University ranks 28th in the world and first in China. Peking University is followed by 51 in the world. The next top ten contestants are Shanghai Jiaotong University, University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Zhongda University, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
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Under the mainstream atmosphere where universities are basically performing normally, the extraordinary performance of Qu Normal University and Shandong University of Science and Technology is destined to catch everyone’s attention.
In the ranking of mathematics subjects, Qu Normal University ranked 19th in the world with a comprehensive score of 80.2.
This performance is on a par with the University of Chicago and the University of Texas at Austin in the United States.
The style has also overshadowed the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus——
The aura of 25 Nobel Prize winners, 2 former U.S. Vice Presidents, and many Fortune 500 corporate tycoons, had to be overshadowed by the “counter-attack” of Qu Normal University’s mathematics.
From the perspective of mainland universities, The overall score of the Mathematics Major of Qu Normal University is 2 points ahead of Peking University, and the ranking is 4 times higher.
Shandong University of Science and Technology ranks third behind Peking University with a difference of 0.1 points, ranking third in the country, but it has a 1.1 point difference from fourth place, beating Fudan University.
It can be said that only a little bit, the top 2 of domestic mathematics subjects will be occupied by two Shandong universities.
But judging from this ranking, it does not prevent the two being called the leaders of the profession.
Their “breaking” performance in the U.S. News World University Rankings has given the nation’s dual-non-university college team a lot of excitement and created a bright future for Shandong Higher Education.
Second, “I am on the list according to the rules, what’s the problem?”
The ranking was declared true by the official, let’s take a look at how this transcript was determined.
According to the official website of U.S. News World University Rankings, there are 12 evaluation indicators for subject rankings.
Including international and academic reputation(25% in total), the number of cited papers in the top 10% of ESI(12.5%), the proportion of cited papers in the top 10% of ESI (10%), papers Number of publications (10%), citation influence (10%) span>, the proportion of cited papers in the top 1% of ESI (5%), etc.
It is not difficult to see that weights related to paper publication and cited papers account for the majority of the assessment, reaching more than 60%.
The official website also lists the rankings of various indicators of Qu Normal University.
A more eye-catching achievement than the global ranking 19 is The school has 6 indicators ranked in the top five in the world.
What’s more noticeable is that its citation influence, ESI top 10% cited paper ratio, and ESI top 1% cited paper ratio are all ranked first in the world.
It’s not just Peking University who surpassed these scores. Even Harvard and MIT have to get three points from Qushi University.
In this way, is the mathematics of Qu Normal University really that amazing?
In addition to U.S. News rankings, other lists gave different answers.
In the Fourth National Subject Assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education in 2017, in terms of mathematics, Peking University, Fudan University, and Shandong were recognized as A+ grades, ranking among the top in the country.
Qu Normal University was rated as B-level. The small partners in the same echelon include Shandong Normal University and Hubei University.
Performance is good, but itIt is far from being able to compare with Qingbei’s reconciliation-there is a difference of 5 levels in the middle.
Of course, the scores of subjects in the same university on different lists are very different, and it is likely to be a pot of evaluation standards.
The subject evaluation of the Ministry of Education incorporates the “faculty and resources”, “quality of talent training”, “scientific research level”, “social service and academic reputation” of universities and disciplines into the assessment, which may be quite different from US News’s assessment of papers. .
Look at the international trend of 2020QS World University Rankings. The list uses “academic reputation”, “employer reputation”, “cited amount of each paper” and “paper influence” as the evaluation indicators , Similar to the focus of US News.
However, the QS ranking results are similar to the fourth round of subject evaluation by the Ministry of Education. The top domestic mathematics subjects are Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, and University of Science and Technology of China.
The vanguard troops also didn’t see Qu Normal University, and after pulling the list, they still couldn’t find this university.
Enter the name of Qushida for an accurate search, the result is——
“Opps…there is no such person on this list.”
Generally speaking, this so-called “loophole” in the U.S. News World University Rankings will not have much impact if the front-end universities can maintain a stable level and the gap is small.
Once it is deliberately used, the phenomenon of sudden emergence may happen because of this.
3. Know the rules, you may become a top school
Northeastern University can be regarded as a senior player in the matter of “good use of rules to dominate the rankings”.
For example, U.S. News American university ranking assessment indicators are as follows:
Graduation and studentsRetention rate (22.5%), undergraduate academic reputation(22.5%) span>, teacher resources (20%), student source quality (12.5% ) etc.
According to the introduction of the answerer @多pamine, after the standard is clear, Northeastern University will immediately follow up the plug-in:
As a result, the school’s rankings soared, its reputation soared, international students came in, and the school’s financial resources naturally flooded in.
Beijing Youth Daily also reported that a university in Xi’an published a false advertisement in the Los Angeles Times at its own expense, claiming that the “50-state Higher Education Alliance” selected the school as the tenth place in the Chinese university rankings. This “news” was made into news reports and spread on many large domestic websites.
This false ranking with excellent performance has confused many young people studying and families who dream of prestigious schools.
Of course, rankings like this are unreliable, and the above “university confusing behavior awards” are not funny at all.
In fact, the so-called bright rankings and decent publicity created a beautiful illusion, it is really possible for some parents and students to believe it is true, and then apply for these universities.
Netizen @王子君 Tucao, “If colleges and universities want to quantify, they must have indicators. If there are indicators, there must be opportunities.
The ranking itself has a lot of room for manipulation, which should not be regarded as a standard, just refer to it. “
After all, those businessmen who only want to develop high-level scientific research kpi and reputation, so as to squeeze into the list of the best universities, will only get further and further away from the real good universities.
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