Times Higher Education, QS: unlike Shanghai, the most prestigious rankings unanimously recognize PSL (Paris Sciences et Lettres), the best French university in the world.
This grouping of higher education establishments, including in particular the ENS, Paris-Dauphine or Mines Paris Tech, falls on the other hand in the hierarchy established by Shanghai.
A surprising demotion, which brings water to the mill of detractors of the Chinese cabinet's charts.
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"For the Shanghai ranking, it is better to be a rich and old faculty"
, maintains Alain Fuchs, president of PSL.
If he puts into perspective the two places lost by PSL, recalling in passing the gain of eight places in the QS ranking, he does not fail to underline the dysfunctions of the method used by Shanghai.
This incorporates six criteria, including the number of Nobel and Fields medals (the equivalent of the Nobel for mathematics) among graduates and professors or the quantity of publications in the
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