Category: Academics
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A Former Student Remembers Paul Rabinow
There was this one time, during my senior year at UC Berkeley, I showed up to Anthropology of the Contemporary about a half-hour early. It was held in one of the Anthro department conference rooms — the larger one, where the AUA meetings were held, at the intersection of the hall near the waiting room…
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Ranking of Public Universities Worldwide, 2020-21
Rank Institution ARWU QS THE USNWR Average World Rank 1 University of California, Berkeley 🇺🇸 5 30 7 4 11.5 2 ETH Zürich 🇨🇭 20 6 14 26 16.5 3 University of California, Los Angeles 🇺🇸 13 36 15 13 19.25 4 University of Michigan 🇺🇸 22 21 22 17 20.5 5 University of Toronto…
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Ranking of Universities in the Benelux Union, 2020-21
This is a ranking of the top 20 universities in the Benelux Union ranked relative to each other by average world rank for the year 2020-2021. The ranking was created by using metadata sourced from the four prominent rankings of world universities (each ranking released in 2020): Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), Quacquarelli Symonds…
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Ranking of Universities in the German-speaking World, 2020-21
Published Feb. 13, 2021 by S. N. McGannon This is a ranking of the top 20 universities in the German-speaking world ranked relative to each other by average world rank for the year 2020-2021. In this ranking the “German-speaking world” is defined as being constituted by the following countries: Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. Also,…
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Ranking of Universities in the non-English Speaking World, 2020-21
This is a ranking of the top 25 universities in the non-English speaking world ranked relative to each other by average world rank for the year 2020. In this ranking the “non-English speaking world” is defined as all countries excluding the U.S., the U.K., Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The ranking was created by…
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Universities Should Pay to Bring International Students to Campus During the Coronavirus Pandemic
“How can newly-matriculated international students secure the funds necessary to cover would-be additional costs during the COVID-19 pandemic?” By S N McGannon July 9, 2020 In my recent article (which you can read here) I suggest measures governments can implement to open up their countries to newly matriculated international students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Most…
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How Governments Can Open Up Their Countries to International Students During the Coronavirus Pandemic
How can a government open up their country to newly matriculated international students during the COVID-19 pandemic?
S.N. McGannon 