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♥ Thursday, October 30, 2008
9:42 PM

Ranking or experience?


Came across this notes in my friend's facebook:

I was checking my University of Texas email account earlier just to see if anything interesting came through. There was nothing important, but the mail I got highlighted one of the crucial differences between the ANU's College of Business and Economics (CBE) and UT's McCombs School of Business.

These are some of the events that the McCombs School organised in the past month:

- Forum: Managing your career in the midst of global economic crisis, October 17
- The Role of the Federal Reserve Board in Uncertain Times-Oct. 16
- Examining the Market Meltdown-October 3

In comparison, these are some of the events, nay the only event that the CBE organised for the rest of the year:

Friday, 5 December 2008
6th Annual Australasian Audit Research Forum

Also, The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings (see my other posted item, or here: http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/overall_rankings/fullrankings/) was released a short while ago. UT is in 70th place, 19 places down from 51 last year. ANU however is still on top of its game at 16.

Texas has 36,000 undergrads, 12,000 postgrads, 2 rec centres with swimming pools, $4.5bn in endowment, a football stadium, an indoor arena, some the best athletics programs and sports teams in the country, the 11th largest library in the US, 16 different colleges and schools, a clock tower, the Lyndon Johnson Presidential library, the Texas Memorial Museum, over 1,000 student organisations, the most-award winning student newspaper in the US (The Daily Texan), a 350 acre campus, 14 residence halls and a host of other probably academically irrelevant amenities. I mean, these things probably don't matter in the life of a student anyway, so why bother?

You can draw your own conclusions about this. Proud as I am to be able to stake a claim in the ANU rankings, I reckon some perspective is in order. Hopefully ANU will continue its good run in the university ranking league tables but there are still a great deal of improvements that can be made around here and really, complacency never did anyone any good. i'm not saying that we need a massive athletics centre or giant campuses but the student experience is more than just the number of papers it publishes.

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I can't help but agree with him. Having graduated from 2 reputable and highly-ranked unis certainly look great in my resume, but it pales in comparison to my experience in 1 average-ranked uni.

What is ranking all about anyway? Duh... who cares about ranking...

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