España es desde el punto de vista de las universidades un gran desastre. Y lo dice uno que ha estado en ellas entre alumno, investigador y profesor más de diez años.
Como alumno me di cuenta que mi formación era muy academicista y poco realista, que la vinculación entre la entidad que me enseñaba y los nichos económicos, que me permitirían ser contratado o crear una empresa, eran básicamente nulos. No existe una cercanía entre empresas y universidad, y lo peor de todo, no existe una dimensión de pensamiento universitaria. Es como una academia de pago, con sus exámenes y su titulo, pero no queda nada del pensamiento humanista y práctico del mundo de las ideas. Muchos de los universitarios no se hacen ni pensadores ni trabajadores tras finalizar los estudios.
Cómo alumno me decepcionó que mi "carrera" no tuviera una finalidad bien definida en la realidad, que hubiera que constituir un colegio y pelear por nuestras competencias, que no estuviera diseñada de ante mano una estrategia clara de las competencias de los titulados y su inserción laboral, tanto en número como en otros aspectos. Y es que una Directiva Europea sobre medio ambiente de hace más de 20 años, y aún no transpuesta como es debido, ha dado lugar a miles de estudiantes, que aún habiendo hecho un esfuerzo económico, de tiempo y entrega personal no tienen una realidad acorde a lo predicho.
Este caso no es aislado y la falta de estrategia de los mejores formados del país es patética, realmente es muy triste que miles de personas se forman sin un objetivo claro. No es posible que se invierta dinero en formar a miles de personas sin tener claro cuantas son necesarias en un corto medio plazo, que destrezas deben tener y qué nichos económicos las van a acoger y cómo. Es decir, con la formación debería haber una previsión. Ningún partido ha sido capaz de hacerlo.
Otro dato muy curioso del que me di cuenta es que una misma titulación puede diferir, según el lugar donde se imparta, en casi el 50 % de la carga lectiva, mediante asignaturas optativas y obligatorias que cada universidad tienen el derecho de fijar. Por lo que la uniformidad profesional es simplemente mentira.
Como investigador y a pesar de ser un privilegiado por estar en uno de los grupos con más medios y trayectoria de España en mi materia, es realmente triste que las investigaciones terminen siendo en la mayoria de las ocasiones un artículo de una revista especializada internacional de más o menos prestigio, y que ese trabajo y esa inversión no repercuta de forma inmediata y directa en la sociedad. La ciencia y la investigación debe de dejar de ser un mundo aislado y extraño para el ciudadano de a píe y su divulgación y su implicación social deberían ser mucho mayores. Fundamentalmente mediante una mayor implicación de la empresa y los agentes sociales.
Como profesor me di cuenta que el nivel del alumnado es cada año peor, que desde la base se están haciendo mal las cosas, que la enseñanza media y elemental tiene escasa calidad.
Es imprescindible para salir de esta crisis reconstruir desde abajo esta sociedad y eso empieza con la educación, una educación que no puede prescindir de medios por los recortes, que debe estar organizada a partir de ideas de los expertos docentes, y no desde las cúpulas políticas de "los tontos del bote" que por sus influencias nos gobiernan y nos han gobernado. Personajes tan tristes que niegan el cambio climático (el cuñadísimo) o que hablan por medio de la palabra de Dios (Wert, perteneciente al OPUS), que poco debería que ver en una sociedad que se define como laica. Más allá de sus peleas ideológicas que pocos tienen que aportar a una mejor enseñanza.
Pero parece que la mejor manera para que las universidades tengan mayor nivel en España no pasa por invertir en investigación, contratar a los mejores profesionales, definir las estrategias académicas, docentes y de inserción para el empleo, sino en hacer una criba de alumnos, eso sí, no por aspectos puramente académicos, sino monetarios. Subir las tasas es la solución para la educación, política que por lo que se ve es extensible a todo, sanidad, transporte, funcionarios...sueldos y dietas de políticos, coches oficiales, ¡uy! ¡Perdón! esto último no.
Cosas como éstas hacen que España no tenga ninguna universidad entre las 200 mejores del mundo.
1 | California Institute of Technology | United States |
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2 | Stanford University | United States |
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2 | University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
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4 | Harvard University | United States |
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5 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | United States |
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6 | Princeton University | United States |
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7 | University of Cambridge | United Kingdom |
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8 | Imperial College London | United Kingdom |
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9 | University of California, Berkeley | United States |
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10 | University of Chicago | United States |
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11 | Yale University | United States |
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12 | ETH Zürich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zürich | Switzerland |
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13 | University of California, Los Angeles | United States |
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14 | Columbia University | United States |
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15 | University of Pennsylvania | United States |
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16 | Johns Hopkins University | United States |
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17 | University College London | United Kingdom |
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18 | Cornell University | United States |
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19 | Northwestern University | United States |
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20 | University of Michigan | United States |
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21 | University of Toronto | Canada |
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22 | Carnegie Mellon University | United States |
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23 | Duke University | United States |
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24 | University of Washington | United States |
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25 | University of Texas at Austin | United States |
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25 | Georgia Institute of Technology | United States |
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27 | University of Tokyo | Japan |
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28 | University of Melbourne | Australia |
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29 | National University of Singapore | Singapore |
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30 | University of British Columbia | Canada |
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31 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | United States |
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32 | University of Edinburgh | United Kingdom |
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33 | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign | United States |
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34 | McGill University | Canada |
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35 | The University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
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35 | University of California, Santa Barbara | United States |
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37 | Australian National University | Australia |
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38 | University of California, San Diego | United States |
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39 | London School of Economics and Political Science | United Kingdom |
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40 | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne | Switzerland |
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41 | New York University | United States |
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42 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | United States |
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42 | Karolinska Institute | Sweden |
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44 | Washington University in St Louis | United States |
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44 | University of California, Davis | United States |
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46 | Peking University | China |
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47 | University of Minnesota | United States |
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48 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | Germany |
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49 | University of Manchester | United Kingdom |
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50 | Pohang University of Science and Technology | Republic of Korea |
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51 | Brown University | United States |
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52 | Tsinghua University | China |
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53 | Ohio State University | United States |
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54 | Boston University | United States |
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54 | Kyoto University | Japan |
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56 | University of Southern California | United States |
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57 | King's College London | United Kingdom |
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58 | KU Leuven | Belgium |
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59 | Seoul National University | Republic of Korea |
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59 | École Normale Supérieure | France |
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61 | Pennsylvania State University | United States |
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62 | École Polytechnique | France |
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62 | University of Sydney | Australia |
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64 | Leiden University | Netherlands |
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65 | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | Hong Kong |
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65 | University of Queensland Australia | Australia |
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67 | Utrecht University | Netherlands |
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68 | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Republic of Korea |
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69 | Purdue University | United States |
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70 | Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | Germany |
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70 | Wageningen University and Research Center | Netherlands |
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72 | University of Massachusetts | United States |
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72 | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Netherlands |
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74 | University of Bristol | United Kingdom |
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75 | Rice University | United States |
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76 | University of Pittsburgh | United States |
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77 | Delft University of Technology | Netherlands |
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78 | Universität Heidelberg | Germany |
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79 | Emory University | United States |
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80 | Durham University | United Kingdom |
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81 | Université Pierre et Marie Curie | France |
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82 | Lund University | Sweden |
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83 | University of Amsterdam | Netherlands |
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84 | University of Montreal | Canada |
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85 | University of New South Wales | Australia |
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86 | Nanyang Technological University | Singapore |
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87 | Tufts University | United States |
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88 | McMaster University | Canada |
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89 | University of Groningen | Netherlands |
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89 | University of Zürich | Switzerland |
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91 | University of Colorado Boulder | United States |
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92 | Université Paris-Sud | France |
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93 | Ghent University | Belgium |
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94 | Michigan State University | United States |
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94 | University of Notre Dame | United States |
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96 | University of California, Irvine | United States |
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97 | University of Maryland, College Park | United States |
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98 | University of Arizona | United States |
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99 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | United States |
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99 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | Germany |
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99 | Monash University | Australia |
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102 | University of Rochester | United States |
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103 | University of York | United Kingdom |
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104 | Case Western Reserve University | United States |
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105 | Technische Universität München | Germany |
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106 | Uppsala University | Sweden |
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106 | Vanderbilt University | United States |
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108 | University of St Andrews | United Kingdom |
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109 | University of Helsinki | Finland |
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110 | University of Sussex | United Kingdom |
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110 | University of Sheffield | United Kingdom |
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110 | Trinity College Dublin | Republic of Ireland |
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113 | University of Cape Town | South Africa |
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114 | Eindhoven University of Technology | Netherlands |
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115 | Maastricht University | Netherlands |
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116 | Aarhus University | Denmark |
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117 | Stockholm University | Sweden |
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118 | University of Virginia | United States |
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119 | Royal Holloway, University of London | United Kingdom |
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120 | University of Nottingham | United Kingdom |
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121 | University of Alberta | Canada |
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122 | University of Florida | United States |
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122 | University of California, Santa Cruz | United States |
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124 | Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
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124 | University of Warwick | United Kingdom |
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124 | Dartmouth College | United States |
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127 | Radboud University Nijmegen | Netherlands |
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128 | Freie Universität Berlin | Germany |
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128 | Tokyo Institute of Technology | Japan |
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130 | University of Copenhagen | Denmark |
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130 | University of Southampton | United Kingdom |
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130 | Université de Lausanne | Switzerland |
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133 | University of Geneva | Switzerland |
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134 | Indiana University | United States |
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134 | National Taiwan University | Taiwan |
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134 | University of Utah | United States |
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137 | Tohoku University | Japan |
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137 | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Israel |
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139 | University of Glasgow | United Kingdom |
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140 | VU University Amsterdam | Netherlands |
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140 | KTH Royal Institute of Technology | Sweden |
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142 | Universität Basel | Switzerland |
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142 | University of Leeds | United Kingdom |
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144 | Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg | Germany |
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145 | Queen Mary, University of London | United Kingdom |
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145 | Lancaster University | United Kingdom |
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147 | Osaka University | Japan |
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148 | Arizona State University | United States |
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149 | Technical University of Denmark | Denmark |
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150 | Boston College | United States |
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151 | Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Germany |
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151 | University of Bern | Switzerland |
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153 | University of Exeter | United Kingdom |
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154 | University of California, Riverside | United States |
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154 | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
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156 | Yeshiva University | United States |
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156 | Texas A&M University | United States |
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158 | University of São Paulo | Brazil |
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158 | Tel Aviv University | Israel |
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158 | University of Birmingham | United Kingdom |
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161 | University of Auckland | New Zealand |
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162 | Stony Brook University | United States |
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162 | University of Vienna | Austria |
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164 | Université Catholique de Louvain | Belgium |
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165 | University of Delaware | United States |
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166 | Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 | France |
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167 | University of Texas at Dallas | United States |
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168 | George Washington University | United States |
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169 | University of Iowa | United States |
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170 | École Normale Supérieure de Lyon | France |
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171 | Universität Bonn | Germany |
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171 | University of Liverpool | United Kingdom |
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171 | University of Ottawa | Canada |
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174 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | United States |
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174 | Georgetown University | United States |
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176 | University of Aberdeen | United Kingdom |
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176 | University of Reading | United Kingdom |
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176 | University of Adelaide | Australia |
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176 | University of East Anglia | United Kingdom |
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180 | Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble | France |
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180 | Newcastle University | United Kingdom |
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182 | City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong |
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183 | Yonsei University | Republic of Korea |
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184 | University of Illinois at Chicago | United States |
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184 | William & Mary | United States |
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184 | Colorado School of Mines | United States |
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187 | University of Twente | Netherlands |
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187 | University College Dublin | Republic of Ireland |
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189 | Medical University of South Carolina | United States |
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190 | University of Western Australia | Australia |
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190 | Wake Forest University | United States |
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192 | University of Antwerp | Belgium |
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193 | University of Miami | United States |
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193 | Technion Israel Institute of Technology | Israel |
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193 | Iowa State University | United States |
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196 | University of Leicester | United Kingdom |
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196 | University of Victoria | Canada |
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198 | University at Buffalo | United States |
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199 | Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main | Germany |
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200 | Birkbeck, University of London | United Kingdom |
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201-225 | Autonomous University of Barcelona | Spain |
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201-225 | University of Barcelona | Spain |
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201-225 | Brandeis University | United States |
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201-225 | Cardiff University | United Kingdom |
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201-225 | University of Dundee | United Kingdom |
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201-225 | Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg | Germany |
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201-225 | Fudan University | China |
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201-225 | University of Georgia | United States |
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201-225 | University of Gothenburg | Sweden |
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201-225 | University of Innsbruck | Austria |
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201-225 | Universität Konstanz | Germany |
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201-225 | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz | Germany |
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201-225 | Middle East Technical University | Turkey |
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201-225 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | Russian Federation |
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201-225 | Nagoya University | Japan |
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201-225 | Northeastern University | United States |
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201-225 | University of Oslo | Norway |
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201-225 | Pompeu Fabra University | Spain |
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201-225 | Queen's University | Canada |
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201-225 | University of Science and Technology of China | China |
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201-225 | St George's, University of London | United Kingdom |
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201-225 | University of Strasbourg | France |
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201-225 | Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) | Republic of Korea |
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201-225 | Tilburg University | Netherlands |
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201-225 | Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen | Germany |
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395 | University of Valencia | Spain |
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396 | Polytechnic University of Valencia | Spain |
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MCA
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