Who Ranks the University Rankers?

摘要

Who gets to take credit for Albert Einstein's Nobel Prize? The question seems absurd, but it's important for the reputations of two Berlin universities. The reason: Even Nobels bagged 90 years ago are counted in the "Shanghai ranking," an influential list of the world's 500 best universities. Both Free University (FU), founded in West Berlin in 1948, and Humboldt University (HU), on the other side of the former Wall, claim to be the heirs of the University of Berlin, the erstwhile home of Albert Einstein and many other Nobelists.