I feel british universities in general is better than american universities. I was going through the top 50 universities in the world where i found there were 26 american universities and 8 british universities. It may seem there are more american universities in top 50 but the realitiy is in america there are over 50 000 univeristies believe it or not . Compare that to britian where there is about 500 univerisity.

Agree in america there are some very good univeristy but then there are numerous awful universities . Since the univerisities in britain is so less the rivalry between these university is fierce so there is a competition to maintain the standard with the rivals. If you take out random sample of univerisity from america only one out of 100 univeristy can be considered very good, where as in britian the number reduces to four or five.

What?
50 000 univeristies???

Get your facts straight. That's not true. To have that number, one state on average must have 1,000 universities, which is overly overly estimated.

In fact, the number of college and universities in the US is little over 4, 000. So, I don't see how you can make that claim.

There are about 3000 accredited univesities in US. But there are numberous colleges an universities that are not accredited which are far more significant in number than accredited univerisity. If u count those universities it does reach somewhere near what i have said before.

Please, do not use false statistics to make comparision. There are only around 3200 colleges and universties in the USA. I am not arguing here in favor of US universities though. I know there are some good universities in UK and the USA as well.

Where is the false statistics. You are saying 3200 which is more than mine 3000. But there are countless number of unaccredited universities which are struggling to find authenticity. I have not used any false statistics. I read somewhere that the ratio of unaccreditated to accreditated universities and colleges is 15:1 so that is only a rough estimation.

Even if you take only accreditated university british universities still scores over american.

As the data says, there are 4,182 accredited Colleges and Universities in USA.

Source: http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0908742.html

Ok . lets talk about different matter now. Where does your university lie in the world ranking .
here is the list

http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005TOP500list.htm

mine is 139

Or rahter i should say between 101-152

When i said 26 univeristies out of 50 world univerisity in my first thread i meant to times ranking. not the one i gave the link of here is another one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Higher_Education_Supplement

ufffffff!! what happened to all the colleges out there???

I have some serious doubt over The Times Higher Education Supplement ranking. It's kinda biased towards the European universities, that's why 26 univeristies out of 50 world univerisity are from Europe in that list.
And, few doubtful names are here:
1) No 17: Beijing University
As far as I know the Unversity of Tokyo is far more better than Beijing University in each and every decipline. And, Beijing University doesn't show up even in top 100 among in another list (http://ed.sjtu.edu.cn/rank/2005/ARWU2005TOP500list.htm) which is prepared by a chinese unviversity itself.

And, another thing which really makes me laugh in that ranking is that it has placed IIT, India above Standford University in Technology category. In that case, why should TOP IITans go to USA for grad studies, rather than studying at IIT itself? I am just wondering...anyone can help me here..please..
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mama - everyone makes mistakes! :) :)

oopps! i meant sajha mama ke - everyone makes mistakes!!!

so did you.

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Nails,

Did you find your college in the list? I guess You did. It should be among TOP 25 there.

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Bidhan 408,,,you are crap..SAYING THERE ARE COUNTLESS UNIVERSITIES WHICH IS UNACCREDITED..JUST GIVE THE WEB SITE WHICH IS TRUE...and hey if so than i should see 1000 unversities in my state...but i don't see it...GIVE ME A BREAK..

I don't think you can compare the universities of developed nations in totality. USA, like other nations, has excellent schools as well as mediocre ones. But, in general, I know for sure that the American Higher Education is the best in the world, bar none.

Sorry about the mistake i read the post again. 50000 was for whole american continent including south american and caribbean islands. But i wont shy away from accepting my mistake.

but even if u take the accreditaed ones of about 4200 which is a significantly larger than british ones. I think for the UK with a handful of universites to be in there with 8 out of 50 is incredible which proves in general british universities are better. America have few very good univerisites amist of crap universities.

I think it is more important which university you are studying rather than where are u studying. I would rather study in tokyo univeristy ( great university) any than a very poor university in USA.

Bottom line is its down to ranking of individual university where they u are studying rahter than british and american. Some of the australian universities are pretty high in ranking as well. I would easily leave my current university for studying in university of sidney although i am studying at one of the top universtity in UK but it still is less than university of sidney.