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Dr. Dimitri Vulis (dlv@bwalk.dm.com) wrote:
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: Consider, for example, the December 1995 issue of the _Notices of the American
: Mathematical Society_. Pages 1538 and 1539 contain the table ranking U.S.
: institutions of higher learning by their scholarly quality and educational
: excellence, based on the study by the National Research Council. I took the
: liberty to type in a few entries from this table:

: School:                                           Ranking:

: Ohio State University                             29
:   (home of Sergey Viznyuk)

This high ranking of otherwise little known university
is, evidently, due to great contribution by honorable SViznyuk.
Is it your point?

: City University of New York
:   (where I've earned by doctorate)                30.5 (tie)
: Johns Hopkins University
:   (home of Sasha Kaplan)
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: Lehigh University                                 97
:   (home of "Prof." Pyotr Vorobiev)

: That's right -- Lehigh "University" ranked 97th out of 101 schools!

: You might be curious to know what other schools have been ranked close to
: Lehigh "University". I've never heard of these schools:
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: Only 4 schools out of the 101 managed to rank _below_ Lehigh. They are:

: University of Hawaii at Manoa           98

I don't understand why U. of Hawaii at Manoa (suburb of Honolulu) is on your
list of "little known provincial colleges".
I don't know how this university is ranked but, anyway, nobody there
really cares. The best brains of humanity are competing for jobs there --
not because it is a school at excellence but because life is good there --
in Hawaii, I mean. So, your "ranking" has little to do with things which
are valued most by scholars in the U.S. You may never have heard of that
university but most professors not only heard of it but dreamed to get
tenure there.

Vladimir

: Polytechnic University                  99.5 (tie)
: University of Oklahoma
: University of Connecticut               101

: I've never heard of these schools either. In fact, most people on Internet have
: never heard of Lehigh "University", except in connection with Pyotr Vorobiev's
: Usenet forgeries. Apparently, letting the notorious net-abuser loose is Lehigh
: "University"'s perverse way of putting itself on the world map. Their marketing
: people must think that lousy publicity is better than no publicity at all.

: The graduate student Pyotr Vorobiev qualifies to be a "professor" at this mail-
: order diploma mill. Probably none of their real "professors" have Ph.D.'s.

: The entire report can be found at URL http://www.nas.edu.

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