What is going on with US universities. They were once on top in the IT fields and now can barely make it into the top 20. Are universities spending more of their efforts on "political" agendas or education? Duke's campus has been messing around with iPods for their students. Wasting about a half million dollars they promotion for Mac seemed to be a disaster. MIT, which usually proves to be strong, has slumped down to 29th place. Now speaking that it is world wide rankings it's not bad but the US universities should desire and strive to be the best. More results of the Association for Computing Machinery International Collegiate Programming Contest in Shanghai, China.

The University of Illinois shared its # 17 spot with Amirkabir University of Technology, Belarusian State University, Information & Communications University, Perm State University (should that be ' Penn ' rather than 'Perm'?), Saratov State University, Sharif University of Technology, Ural State University, Warsaw University and ZhongShan (Sun Yat-sen) University.

Other US universities with placings were: California Institute of Technology, Duke University and and America's flagship Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which tied for #29 with the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica and Kyoto University.[via p2pnet]