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If this is what it will look like, then count me *out*!

Frankly, being an Apple-approved center, I expected something like their Stockston St. Apple Store in San Francisco or at least one of the small stores like the one in Menlo Park Mall, New Jersey. Oh well.
 

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Well, the Times Higher Education-QS World University Ranking (THES-QS) released the results of their 2007 survey. What is “impressive” is the fact they still have the University of the Philippines ranked despite the fact that the university refuses to participate in the survey. Nevertheless, UP achieved the highest ranking among Philippines universities, even if it scraped the bottom 400 list!

Despite UP’s non-participation, the data that THES-QS was able to get placed it above universities such as the Royal Holloway (Uni. of London, UK), Kent (UK), Brigham Young (US), Louisiana State (US), University of South Florida (US) and Temple University (US).

Another Philippine university, Ateneo de Manila University, got into the remaining 401-500 top universities with De La Salle University and University of Santo Tomas nowhere to be found.

Whilst the ranking is mostly based on a university’s financial capability (to improve facilities, attract faculty members, fund research, attract international students), one just cannot ignore the numbers, which somehow also gives universities bragging rights.