Countries with the Most Elite Universities

I disagree. They are pretty much the definition of an elite university in France

Are you suggesting that elite universities produce Olympic medals?

there's not

College sports in the US is a huge deal and it can be hard explaining how much this is true when I travel internationally because I don't think it's quite the same anywhere else.

However... it's rare that an American university is known for *both* academics and athletics. MIT, Harvard, Yale or Princeton are never going to be in the NCAA Final Four. Duke and Georgetown both have pretty respectable basketball teams. UVA has a decent football team. UNC Chapel Hill has a good basketball team. Florida has a good football team. But out of the top 50 universities in the US (academically), those might be the only ones with nationally relevant athletics departments.

If something happens one way 80% of the time it's fair to say that happening the other way is rare, and some of those schools you listed are kind of stretching the definition of "nationally successful," even in the single sport that they excel at.

The UK (65 million people) beat the medal tally of China (1.4 billion) at Rio 2016

There's probably a correlation between elite universities and achievements in certain sports, but I'd be surprised if there are enough sports in that category to affect the overall Olympic medal tally. GDP, national specialisation, genetics, immigration-friendliness ... these probably account for almost all of that.

Most of those baristas have degrees in Women's Literature or Gender Studies, which barely even counts as an education. More like a certificate for surviving a 4 year long circle jerk. If you get a degree in something that is actually useful, there are jobs to be had in the USA.

True, QM. One of my nephews was an electrician which led to him creating his own successful manufacturing business, and another nephew is a carpenter and his son is a welder. Neither of them are ever out of a job, and both earn on the same level as my college-educated children. But I do agree with Kalbahamut that some college degrees are better than others when looking for jobs in the real world. Hang in there, TinklePork. I hope you find something soon.

@Tinkle.. ::shrug:: some fields are easier to find jobs in than others. Your friends might have wanted to do more research into this if what they wanted was expeditious employment and they were not, for example, following a passion or interest.

The year I graduated I got my degree issued on January 17 and was hired, granted a visa, relocated and in Korea working at a new job by February 1.

Also, I know many women, like my friend's lovely, highly intelligent, successful neurosurgeon wife, who understand that Gender Studies is total BS and the fact that it even exists as a subject is both an insult to her as a woman and detrimental to academia as a whole. She would have a lot to say about such ignorant and offensive comments.

Wow! I wish I knew a lovely, highly intelligent, neurosurgeon. I'd blindly take on board her opinions about everything.

Instead of blindly taking on board the opinions of what you read on tumblr and reddit? Whatever works for you. I prefer not taking on any opinions blindly. And nice job trying to sidestep the fact that you were asserting that you speak for all women, and with one example I proved you wrong. Don't over-generalize so much and it won't be so easy to make you look foolish.

I count at least 2

stubart seems to have since deleted his comment over-generalizing about women's opinions that I was responding to (about how they would all disagree with me). I'll take this as a tacit admission that I was right, and also that he disagrees with Homo.

Err... What has that got to do with India's universities? You are aware that the best Indian universities do not select people like that?

I don't know how they rank universities; I think the Indian universities suffer in the rankings because they don't produce enough research.

Yes, that's pretty good, but 'us' is also accepted for the United States on most of the other quizzes that Quiz-master has.

Would you accept 'we'?

If that's true then it's an incredibly stupid way to evaluate them - sounds as though the evaluators themselves didn't get beyond high school. It also invalidates the entire list and, regrettably, this quiz.

Yes, if it really is about English-language scientific papers, then I completely agree. Russian universities have written most of their works in Russian (for some reason, everything in Russia is always aimed at the inside of the country, not at the international level), only recently has everyone come to their senses and called to learn English in order to take information from international works (that is, 90% of scientific knowledge), and not only from Russian.

They wouldn't