Small east European countries are poised to do well in the rankings battle in 2011.
The programme has since been ranked second, third, and finally has achieved first place in the rankings this year.
The United States fell to fifth place in the rankings, while China moved up slightly to 26th place.
Inspired by Veenhoven's rankings, former foreign correspondent for National Public Radio (and self-proclaimed grouch) Eric Weiner embarked on a quest to visit the happiest places on earth.
They slaved over their studies and were eventually admitted to prestigious schools – only one turned out to be far more prestigious than the other, according to new rankings of Asia's top schools.
The new men's tennis rankings are out.
A decade later Tsinghua sits anywhere from 36th to 58th place by most international rankings.
Basketball has always been a distant third in sports rankings in the United States behind baseball and American football.
BYU dropped four spots to 75th in U.S. News's 2011 rankings of national universities, which are research-oriented institutions that offer degrees of all levels.
Another misconception is that generic or "big dollar" terms are the most important for rankings, even if the term you're going after has nothing to do with your site.
Less happily, perhaps, the guides yield some strikingly different rankings.
Competition between colleges for top students is increasing, partly because of the very popularity of rankings.
Soumitra Dutta, dean of external relations at INSEAD, says that rankings “are not always most helpful” because of all the different methodologies used.
Out of the 43 developed countries (rankings were separated into "more developed," "less developed" and "least developed"), the U. S. came in at 31, while Norway came out on top.
For all, new installations, previously thought to be the main driver of these rankings, remained fairly steady up to the point the rankings changed.
I've been steadily climbing the world rankings for the past 31 years, 10 months and two days.
Last week, Greenpeace released its "greener electronics" rankings, and said Apple scored a zero out of a possible 10 in clean-energy policy advocacy, paper sourcing, and using recycled plastics.
Such as: in the baidu search results appear in the picture "baidu" how should the rankings?
Keira Knightley, Gordon Ramsay and JK Rowling have dropped out of the top 100 rankings altogether, while last year's highest placed Briton, David Beckham, has slipped from fifth to 28th.
Island nations performed particularly well in the rankings. But Vanuatu, with a population of around 200,000, topped them all.
While it provides rankings of the 155 countries around the globe, the Doing Business authors stress the rankings don't take into account a number of variables.
Those rankings are divided into several categories.
Britain has slipped down the rankings, despite spending heavily on education in the last decade.
Mercer also awarded cities eco rankings based on water availability and drinkability, waste removal, quality of sewage systems, air pollution and traffic congestion.
And there is some evidence they could use to back up this assertion. One country exempt from the rankings is America itself.
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