2023QS World University Rankings announced that Qingbei surpassed Yale. What does this mean?

QS global university rankings mainly focus on four aspects: reputation, teaching quality, scientific research ability and internationalization. Because it is ranked in Britain, some universities in Britain and Australia rank higher. As shown in the figure below, the top five are MIT, Cambridge University, Stanford University, Oxford University and Harvard University.

According to the 2023QS World University Rankings, Qingbei has surpassed Yale to focus on Asia. The highest ranking is the National University of Singapore, which has been ranked 1 1 for five consecutive years in the world, Peking University, China 12 and Tsinghua University 14. This is also the best ranking obtained by Tsinghua and Peking University in the global university rankings, creating a record high.

After the release of the QS list in 2023, netizens were very happy to see the ranking of Tsinghua Peking University, which represented the further development of China's higher education and gradually approached the world-class universities.

In this ranking, Duke University, Yale University, Columbia University and other world-class universities are all behind Tsinghua Peking University, which is a big reshuffle. Including Qingbei, there are 106 universities in China.

What does this mean? From the perspective of university positioning, Qingbei is a world-class university, but there is still a certain gap compared with the top universities in Britain, America and Australia, and even worse than the National University of Singapore. From fame, to professional strength, to international influence, there is a certain gap with world-class famous schools.

Professor Zhang Lifen from the Department of Journalism of Fudan University said in an interview: "Our university is still far from the world universities, and we don't even believe that our university can truly become a world-class university in the foreseeable future of our generation."

Professor Zhang Lifen's words are very sharp, but they are also true. The best university in China is Tsinghua Peking University, but it is not on the same level as Stanford, Massachusetts and Harvard, and it will be regarded as a joke when put together.

But Professor Zhang also said that our university needs to find the value and capital of the university. What universities pursue is knowledge application, and more importantly, humanities education. Universities make the bottom line of society higher and higher, which not only allows college students to have a process of knowledge accumulation, but also the accumulation of students' lives.

Ranking can't explain the real strength of a university, so it should be analyzed from many aspects. It is enough for college entrance examination students to apply for colleges and universities mainly by looking at employment rate, world-class disciplines, school-enterprise cooperation, popular disciplines and unpopular disciplines. Don't stare at the rankings. After going to college, you will find that ranking is the most useless thing in colleges and universities.