/sci/ - Science & Math

[Anonymous No.8651273]

Underrated universities.

I'll start with the National Technical University of Athens. It might not be one of the best universities in the world, but the engineering program is pretty solid. Certainly a Top 100 (in this department - engineering).

Do you have any "hidden gems" in your country?

[Anonymous No.8651276]

ITT: schools I go to without a good ranking

[Anonymous No.8651280]

>>8651276
I wish people are reasonable and don't just try to boost their schools.
If it's bad, just say it's bad.
I'm also sure some universities don't have a good ranking overall, but in a certain department it's actually pretty good.

[Anonymous No.8651530]

My Community College is actually one of the best schools in the world

[Anonymous No.8651853]

Karolinska Institutet
>10 in medicine according to QS
>12 in medicine according to Shanghai
>10 in medicine according to Times Higher Education
>1 in dentistry according to QS
>Decides the nobel price in Medicine/Physiology

The opportunities for medicine students here are great.

[Anonymous No.8651940]

>>8651853

Didn't this place get bootyblasted by some crackpot Italian who was doing unethical surgeries?

[Anonymous No.8652127]

>>8651853
>underrated
>is rated among the best in the world

[Anonymous No.8652134]

Is UCL overrated in QS?
Its at #7 on QS, has the rating just finally caught up or are the rankings not good?

[Anonymous No.8652167]

>>8651273
What do you mean "hidden gem", it's not like you could have done any better.

[Anonymous No.8652185]

>>8652127
In a specific department.
Overall it's not ranked high.
And most people are unaware of the quality of it in medicine and dentistry.
Do you know a single person that is aware that Karolinska is that good in medicine? Top 15?

It's certainly underrated.

[Anonymous No.8652189]

The bottom tier UC schools are pretty underrated I guess.

UCR
UCM

Their locations sucks though.

[Anonymous No.8652198]

>>8651273
ohio state

[Anonymous No.8652200]

>>8652134
UCL is for imperial rejects much like imperial is for oxbridge rejects

[Anonymous No.8652223]

>>8652200
But why does it rank so much higher than Imperial?

[Anonymous No.8652285]

>>8651273
>>8651276
>>8651280
I think the most legitimate underrated universities are the ones which get great rankings in some league tables, but not in others.

[Anonymous No.8652594]

>>8651273
Tsinghua, Peking, and Nanyang for internationals.

[Anonymous No.8652659]

In the U.S some good ones (in comparison to the output quality of similar schools) are Harvey Mudd, Caltech, Rose-Hulmann, Embry Riddle, UIUC, UT Austin, Embry riddle, and a couple more.

-State schools besides Berkeley and Umich as a whole tend to be a bit underrated. UCLA is underrated depending on who you ask.

-Some of the "elite" privates are a bit overrated as well. I'm looking at you WUSTL, Emory, BU, NYU.

In terms of output vs. name recognition, Embry Riddle and Rose-Hulmann are probably at the top.

[Anonymous No.8653401]

Broadly speaking, the most underrated universities in the world are the Grandes Écoles.

[Anonymous No.8653800]

>>8651940
Yes, we got extremely bootyblasted. The entire board had to resign and the headmaster too. An old minister of defense got the appointment to head of the board since all universities in Sweden are government owned.
Fun fact, I was at the freshmens introduction seminar where the people in the next year often play pranks. A guy from my year pretended to be from the "Agency for quality insurance in higher education". He held a 20 minute long powerpoint presentation about how the university would make everything more strict to make up for the scandal, including setting the passing grade to 80 % on the exam instead of 65 % and implementing mandatory gym class to instill proper discipline in students. A guy next to me, not knowing it was a prank, started screaming at him.

>>8652127
Yes, but how many people know about it?

>>8652185
To be fair, Karolinska only has 2 departments. Health sciences and dentistry. Karolinska Institutet isn't represented in a few rankings because of it's few departments.

[Anonymous No.8653990]

>>8653401
Absolutely.

Take École Normale Supérieure for example.
It's the university that graduated more Fields medalists in the world. A whopping 11 medalists came from there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_Medal#University_ranking_by_alumni

But QS Ranking says it's #27 for mathematics.
https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/university-subject-rankings/2016/mathematics

Absurd.

[Anonymous No.8655555]

IMPA in Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_Nacional_de_Matem%C3%A1tica_Pura_e_Aplicada

[Anonymous No.8655556]

>>8655555
What a waste of quin quints

[Anonymous No.8655576]

>>8653990
isn't being in top-30 quiet good?

I ask because I study in top-30 in physics but my university and my country overall aren't famous in international scientific community

[Anonymous No.8655743]

>>8655576
Where are you from and where do you study?

[Anonymous No.8655881]

>>8652659
>Caltech

This one consistently comes out as the #1 university worldwide in rankings.

[Anonymous No.8655882]

>>8655555
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto_Nacional_de_Matem%C3%A1tica_Pura_e_Aplicada

>qunts

CONFIRMED FOR UNDERRATED

[Anonymous No.8655890]

>>8652659

>Caltech underrated
Are you retarded?

>BU overrated
Just because MIT and Harvard are nearby, huh.

[Anonymous No.8656728]

>>8655576
>isn't being in top-30 quiet good?
Generally, yes.
But École normale supérieure should be higher when it comes to mathematics.
It's also underrated globally.
Everyone knows about Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Cambridge, Oxford, etc. But who knows about ENS? Very few.

[Anonymous No.8656903]

>umderrated
My uni

>overrate
Your uni

[Anonymous No.8656913]

>>8651273
University gets close to research centers, all good research goes to research center, research centers get all nice things,but research center don't show on universities ranks.

Happens on France,Germany,Switzerland or Japan.

[Anonymous No.8657026]

>>8656913
That's a pretty good explanation and might actually be the case.

[Anonymous No.8657132]

>>8651273
Από kαθηγητές, επίπεδο μαθητών kαι συγγράμματα είμαστε τοπ, αλλά από εξοπλισμό στα εργαστήρια σε σχέση με αμεριkανιkά-γερμανιkά...

[Anonymous No.8657291]

>>8656728
I think it's just shows that you live in English language information bubble and don't know much about outside

[Anonymous No.8657309]

>>8651273
Berkeley MechE here, Embry Riddle and UT are often overlooked schools with solid programs

[Anonymous No.8657440]

>>8651273
Lancaster university. I dont go there, but my friend says they have a superb maths and physics department, yet a lot of people havent heard of it.

[Anonymous No.8657442]

[Anonymous No.8657855]

Best State School in New York and the definition of getting your money's worth out of an education.

[Anonymous No.8658010]

>>8651273

>Technische Universität Dresden
I don't know if it is underrated or not but it is a damn good Uni. Soviet expectations with modern german funding. And Dresden is a beautiful city as well. The environment nowadays is shit because it seems devided between libtards and neonazis but still, top notch

[Anonymous No.8658033]

>>8651273
>Universitat de Girona
Chemistry program is god tier, but is underrated because a lot of humanities studies and brainlets.

[Anonymous No.8658086]

>>8657291
Actually, as a french, I didn't know about ENS until I graduated from high school.
The only widely known grande école here is Polytechnique.

[Anonymous No.8658371]

What makes you guys say that a certain department or program is good? Like, how do you judge that?

[Anonymous No.8658385]

>>8652127

because nobody has ever heard of it