Friday, April 27, 2007

Top 50 Biotech Universities

Here comes my first post which contains the list of top 50 Biotechnology Universities....I will keep providing information on various post GRE activities in coming days....

Top 50, 1998-2002

1 Harvard University, Cambridge USA
2 University of Tokyo Japan
3 University of London UK
4 University of California, San Francisco USA
5 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia USA
6 University of California, San Diego USA
7 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore USA
8 Washington University, St. Louis USA
9 University of Washington, Seattle USA
10 University of California, Los Angeles USA
11 Yale University, New Haven USA
12 Stanford University USA
13 Rockefeller University, New York USA
14 University of Wisconsin at Madison USA
15 University of Cambridge UK
16 Baylor College of Medicine, Houston USA
17 University of Oxford UK
18 Duke University, Durham USA
19 Osaka University
20 Kyoto University Japan
21 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge USA
22 University of Texas at Dallas USA
23 Universités de Paris (I - XIII) France
24 Columbia University, New York USA
25 University of California, Berkeley USA
26 Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland USA
27 Cornell University, Ithaca USA
28 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill USA
29 Yeshiva University USA
30 University of Toronto Canada
31 McGill University, Montreal Canada
32 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor USA
33 Vanderbilt University, Nashville USA
34 University of Iowa, Iowa City USA
35 Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm Sweden
36 University of Medicine and Dentistry (UMDNJ), New Brunswick USA
37 University of Alabama at Birmingham USA
38 State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook USA
39 Université de Genève Switzerland
40 University of Wales, Aberystwyth UK
41 New York University (NYU) USA
42 University of Utah, Salt Lake City USA
43 Universität Basel Switzerland
44 University of Chicago USA
45 University of Massachusetts at Amherst USA
46 University of Dundee UK
47 Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland USA
48 University of Edinburgh UK
49 Universités de Strasbourg (I - III) France
50 Universität Zürich Switzerland


Sources: Center for Science and Technology Studies (CEST); Thomson Scientific (SCI/SSCI/AHCI); Milken Institute


Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Becoming Diligent !

I have seen lot of students enquiring about the top universities in the biotechnology field. Recently I came across few students who were misguided by consultants/coaching institute on the same. It was hurting.

These institutes charge a big heavy amount from students in the name of education consulting services but when it comes to provide these students with the right information they tend to just follow the most easy way - provide the students with the name of universities which do not match the student's criterion but is easy for these consultants to approach. These consultants/coaching institutes most often end up saying - "your profile does not meet the requirements of the particular university which you are targeting so better go for what we are advising you".... poor students fall in the trap and end up with something less than otherwise they could have got, the diligent students somehow manage to save themselves from falling into such traps...

After listening and coming across many issues narrated by many students while teaching, I decided I can provide atleast some information to the whole lot of students on the same so that it can make their post GRE activities bit more informed and simple at the same time.