For the second year in a row, the QS World University Rankings rated MIT number one on its list of best schools across the globe. “The rankings judge colleges by research, teaching, employability and internationalization,” reports Kate Barnato for CNBC.
In an article for USA Today, Megan Cahill highlights MIT’s top-ranked biology program. “As a top research university with small class sizes, MIT offers a program that allows students to work closely with professors and their peers on various research projects,” she writes.
Professor Andrew Lo and MIT alumnus Tom Rutledge write for The Boston Globe about the benefits that Boston’s colleges and universities could bring to a potential Olympic bid. “The convergence of a great urban undertaking, a gathering of global elites, and Greater Boston’s amazing universities has truly Olympic potential to enrich the lives of people around the world,” Lo and Rutledge write.
Wall Street Journal reporter Irving Wladawsky-Berger examines Prof. David Autor’s research on income inequality. “Mr. Autor estimates that the difference in the yearly earnings between a college-educated two-income family and a high school-educated two-income family has risen by $28,000 between 1979 and 2012,” he writes.