Mr Wang points out an article in today’s Straits Times which says that NUS has been ranked 31st in Newsweek’s Top 100 Global Universities list.

There is a slight problem with this. Newsweek’s article lists NUS at 36. University of British Columbia is 31st.

Ooops.

Update Apparently, in the print edition, there were ties for 13th, 14th, 24th and 28th. That doesn’t push NUS’ ranking higher. E.g. if three schools are tied at 13th, the next school is 16th, not 14th.

P.S. I don’t particularly care about the rankings. I do care about creative reporting.

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