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by hunglee2 1481 days ago
Good for the UK, but already some push back on the lack of African / LATAM / Indian Universities on the list. It may not be the intent but will essentially produce Trumpian immigration policy outcomes
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"To qualify, a person must have attended a university that appeared in the top 50 of at least two of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, or The Academic Ranking of World Universities in the year they graduated."

They are going for a clearly defined metric of what constitutes the "world's top graduates". This is not about pushing the 'diversity agenda', even though this means that US universities are over-represented (which does not imply that all graduates are American, though).