In terms of research, how do organizations like the US News World report compare math departments from US universities? Do they look at the range of mathematical research and the depth? Do they look at how prestigious a journal professors have published in?
What are some of the factors that go into ranking a math department?
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1This is not really a question about mathematics, is it? – 2011-07-23
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5@Willie: there are quite a lot of math-culture questions on this forum. So I don't think this is off-topic. – 2011-07-23
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2@Ryan: I don't like about this question that it is expressly US centric. I don't care much how a US ranking organization collects some numbers and ranks US universities. – 2011-07-24
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5It is usually the ranking body's responsibility to explain how they arrived at the ranking. If they don't, then obviously the ranking is worthless. Different organisations use different criteria with different weights. – 2011-07-24