Oulu University Better than Aalto Despite Huge Fanfare
Trumpeted as a new super university, you might think it could beat off all competition hands-down. But transpires that Oulu University has a better world ranking than Helsinki’s Aalto Yliopisto.
According to a newly published Chinese analysis of the world’s top 500 institutions of higher education, Oulu – alongside Turku – is ranked somewhere between 301 and 400. Aalto University – alongside Jyväskylä and the University of Eastern Finland (a merger of Joensuu and Kuopio) – is ranked between 401 and 500.
Helsinki University is up at number 72 while the best place of higher education in the world remains Harvard. Aalto University was established this year as a merger of the Helsinki School of Economics, the Helsinki Technical School and the city’s art college. It has 20,000 students.
The universities were ranked by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, taking into account the number of Nobel prizes for their research, how often their studies are cited and the number of articles published in scientific journals.
First off, yay U of H!!! (officially University of Helsinki, not Helsinki University.) Secondly, don’t you think that what you wrote here is a bit skewed interpretation of the data? If a school that has been in operation for less than a year gets anywhere in world wide rankings, it’s a f:ing miracle. How long has University of Oulu been around? Furthermore, Aalto University is a highly specialized school, not an overall institution of higher education like University of Oulu, you are comparing apples to oranges. The fair comparison here would be University of Oulu vs. University of Helsinki, and we all know how that turns out. Sorry, was googling for something else, and came across this.
- University of Helsinki alumni, born in Oulu, living in the U.S. of A, doing what I went to school for; “koulutusta vastaavassa tyossa”