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No Dominican Universities Appear In The Top 100 2023 edition of the QS World University Rankings
Dominican universities do not appear in any world ranking and NEVER will. Low standards are the norm in the D.R.
The Indian Institute of Technology (ITT) has the lowest admission rate in the world, but I don't know why it's not ranked higher than the rest.
Year after year, students who are not admitted to ITT are able to attend CalTech, MIT, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford...
The Indian Institute of Technology (ITT) has the lowest admission rate in the world, but I don't know why it's not ranked higher than the rest.
Year after year, students who are not admitted to ITT are able to attend CalTech, MIT, Cambridge, Harvard, Stanford...
The Indians are going to take control, they are the smartest people in the world, and they are hard workers.
JJ
The prime minister of the UK is from an Indian family as well as the Home Secretary.
Back on topic, I read the title and nearly spat out my tea laughing, I wouldn't be surprised if Dominican universities appeared in the bottom 100. Education here has always been impossible. One of my good friends is a clever guy and decided to enrol on his masters in Math at UASD. He worked incredibly hard but it was clear to me that the way they were teaching was just boring, enormous text books full of tiny print to wade through, lessons often running late and course modules that nobody understood, tutors unwilling to help. Over 100 started on that course and only 2 made it through a year. He said the university was like an industry, they get the sign-up money and the tutors try to make it impossible for anyone to complete so they can start a new course the following year.
Back on topic, I read the title and nearly spat out my tea laughing, I wouldn't be surprised if Dominican universities appeared in the bottom 100. Education here has always been impossible. One of my good friends is a clever guy and decided to enrol on his masters in Math at UASD. He worked incredibly hard but it was clear to me that the way they were teaching was just boring, enormous text books full of tiny print to wade through, lessons often running late and course modules that nobody understood, tutors unwilling to help. Over 100 started on that course and only 2 made it through a year. He said the university was like an industry, they get the sign-up money and the tutors try to make it impossible for anyone to complete so they can start a new course the following year.
The fact that there is only one Dominican university placed in the top 1000 in the world is not a surprise as this reflects the standard of school education in the country. When I left school I had a good introduction to mathematics, including algebra. the history of the Greek and Roman and British Empires, the history of the industrial and social revolutions in most countries , the name and location of every country in the world and their basic details, the literature of great authors in Britain and Europe , the music if the classical composers, the major religions in the world , science including basic laboratory experiments, English , French and Latin and much more , I was taught how to play correctly rugby, cricket,tennis and athletics. Good behaviour was drilled into me with a cane if I did not conform.
I do not believe that I had a better school education than millions of other people of my age . Contrast this with what young Dominicans know when they leave school. The entire educational system in the DR needs an overhaul from early school days to the end of the university days but at present there is only tinkering around the edges.
There is no evidence that Dominicans have some physical disability to learn . They have a normal size brain and they are most adapt at using smart phones that are quite beyond me. The situation will never improve until radical action is taken.
I do not believe that I had a better school education than millions of other people of my age . Contrast this with what young Dominicans know when they leave school. The entire educational system in the DR needs an overhaul from early school days to the end of the university days but at present there is only tinkering around the edges.
There is no evidence that Dominicans have some physical disability to learn . They have a normal size brain and they are most adapt at using smart phones that are quite beyond me. The situation will never improve until radical action is taken.
I suppose that I should point out that the current Prime Minister of the UK was educated at one of the best schools in England, graduated from one of the best and most famous universities in the world and then received his Masters from a first class American University. Indian blood but not Indian educated .
Yes.
But my point is that ITT rejects hundreds of applicants yearly, and many of those rejected are accepted at the top schools in England and USA.
HOWEVER, ITT is not ranked near the top... not even close to the top.
Dominican universities have very low standards.
Consider:
INTEC students compete in a NASA program, and share a prize with a Tennessee high school in ONE category.
However, Dominican media announces that INTEC students "won the NASA competition" where "prestigious universities such as MIT, Harvard, and others, competed." Media personalities even suggested the government should pay for those students' Ph.D. studies.
I read Dominican newspapers, badly-written articles, and the authors claim to be graduates of journalism, as well as university professors. And they're not lying.
But my point is that ITT rejects hundreds of applicants yearly, and many of those rejected are accepted at the top schools in England and USA.
HOWEVER, ITT is not ranked near the top... not even close to the top.
Dominican universities have very low standards.
Consider:
INTEC students compete in a NASA program, and share a prize with a Tennessee high school in ONE category.
However, Dominican media announces that INTEC students "won the NASA competition" where "prestigious universities such as MIT, Harvard, and others, competed." Media personalities even suggested the government should pay for those students' Ph.D. studies.
I read Dominican newspapers, badly-written articles, and the authors claim to be graduates of journalism, as well as university professors. And they're not lying.
You have to look into how those rankings are made. Many Dominican students graduated from PUCMM, INTEC, etc earn scholarships to get a masters and/or PhD in several of the top universities in the workd such as Harvard, Columbia, Yale, MIT, etc. They wouldn't be accepted into those schools if the local universities they attended didn't give them a quality education.
With that said, I don't think I ever heard of someone graduating from the UASD or O&M and others and then get accepted in Stanford or Complutense de Madrid. With UASD, not counting when it was USD during the Era of Trujillo, which did had quite a few graduates going to top schools in the USA. The same hasn't been the case during the DR democratic era which is still in effect. Also, back then everyone wasn't able to go to USD as there was standards to be accepted, unlike today where anyone with a high school diploma can go there (whether they graduate is sonething else) thanks to the government rejecting imposing acceptance tests at the UASD.
With that said, I don't think I ever heard of someone graduating from the UASD or O&M and others and then get accepted in Stanford or Complutense de Madrid. With UASD, not counting when it was USD during the Era of Trujillo, which did had quite a few graduates going to top schools in the USA. The same hasn't been the case during the DR democratic era which is still in effect. Also, back then everyone wasn't able to go to USD as there was standards to be accepted, unlike today where anyone with a high school diploma can go there (whether they graduate is sonething else) thanks to the government rejecting imposing acceptance tests at the UASD.
The ranking really has very little to do with the quality of instruction and results of the students but more to do with how many of the academics have peer approved papers published, have PHDs, doctorates...etc.
If that is so, why is India an impoverished country with the majority of the country without basic sanitary facilities, 50% (or 700 million people) have no access to toilets. 25% of the country is illiterate even by India's standards. They have a backward agricultural system, even though they make half the farming tractors in the world, most are exported so malnutrition is rampant.
They will not control any part of the world if they can not control their own country
Dominican universities (an oxymoron if ever there was one), dominican teachers (mostly with 5th grade education themselves), dominican government caring about their ignorant populace = 0 as they show year after year after year, most dominicans ( not the lighter skin elites who paid for whatever they do profes to teach in the pompous private schools). As long as no one in this country’s government cares..so goes the non-universities showing up on any list at any time. Very pathetic view of the future of this country’s intelligence
For as long as Dominicans bury their head in the sand in regard to the standards of schools and universities and prisons and the justice system and social services ,there will be absolutely no way that the country can improve. There are some well known private universities in the USA and the UK and in Australia that offer masters degrees online . The aim is to bring in money and entry standards are not high. The fact is that most countries do not accept the qualifications from the DR in the professions .
Way back in 2006 there was a thread about private schools in the DR and there was good information about a very few schools here that had US accreditation and were outside the DR system . Good results in these schools were the same as good results in the USA and led to entry into Universities in the USA . This may explain quite a lot relating to the handing out of scholarships and who gets them and also how some Dominicans go to Universities outside the DR
When in Puerto Rico I used to hear about good medical colleges in DR and if fact some Puerto Ricans came here for that. But after seeing the medical system in DR, I think any of the better doctors educated here must flee like convicts rather than go into practice here.
I have yet to meet a good doctor - but I do know they exist, but few reside on the North Coast
I have yet to meet a good doctor - but I do know they exist, but few reside on the North Coast
Case in point, there is an article in today’s Listín Diario that says only about 20% of those that go to further their studies abroad using government scholarships stay there. Aka, most Dominicans that go abroad on government scholarships return to the DR upon getting their degree.
As previously said, you can’t get scholarships from the government and accepted in universities abroad if the quality of Dominican universities were seriously lacking.
A thread was recently created about Dominican government scholarships: https://dr1.com/forums/threads/dominican-government-international-scholarships-2023.405192/
As previously said, you can’t get scholarships from the government and accepted in universities abroad if the quality of Dominican universities were seriously lacking.
A thread was recently created about Dominican government scholarships: https://dr1.com/forums/threads/dominican-government-international-scholarships-2023.405192/