in top university rankings, such as Academic Ranking of World Universities, QS World University Rankings, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the U.S. News & World Report Best Global University Ranking. See also Gates of horn and ivory Intelligentsia Blue skies research College and university rankings Academia Laputa, Jonathan Swift's satire of the impractical research of the Royal Society References External links Ivory Tower at Wordorigins.org The Ivory Tower: the history of a figure of speech and its cultural uses. Steven Shapin. BJHS 45(1): 1–27, March 2012 Academic culture Academic slang Hebrew Bible words and phrases Ivory Metaphors referring to places Metaphors referring to objects Song of Songs Titles of Mary