I am a proud alumnus of the University of Pisa, Italy were I earned my M.Sc. degree, but I am very sad to discover that no Italian university is listed among world's top 100 academic institutions (from Newsweek in 2006).
In contrast, I am also a proud alumnus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) where I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science. EPFL is ranked 26th!!
Finally, I've been visiting scholar of University of California, Berkeley, and University of Stanford as a post-doctoral fellow. These two institution are ranked respectively 4th and 2nd!!
What will be the next step?
1 comment:
Dear Vic,
I'm also very disappointed in noticing that we (Italy) have very little to offer in this respect. However is quite strange that there is a substantial correlation between the anti-quality of our universities and the quality of our graduated.
It looks like suffering a little bit helps the students in growing faster.
Ciao
Cerboost
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