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Ivy League Is a Sports Conference
The Ivy League isn't an academic honor society — it's an eight-school athletic conference founded in 1954, named for the ivy on old campus buildings. Yet we treat that football schedule as shorthand for academic excellence. This episode traces the surprisingly short history of global university rankings (the Shanghai ranking and QS both launched in the early 2000s), digs into what they actually measure, and asks whether a single number can ever capture what a university is. From Nobel-count-heavy methodologies to reputation surveys that just ask academics what they already think, we explore…
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