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Top 25 teams such as Georgetown won the vast majority of awards

Which college Model UN teams are the best on the circuit? We devised a rankings system that answers this question in order to recognize the top teams on the college circuit for their accomplishments.

Please read the revised methodology article first before jumping into the rankings. We clarify in the article our purpose for doing rankings, our philosophy that drives what we value in the rankings, and improvements in our methodology. Please note that these rankings are for what our methodology describes as the World Division and does not capture results for all of college Model UN. We consider teams that won Outstanding Delegation at NMUN to be the best in the National Division. With that said, here is the World Division Top 25!

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Universidad Simon Bolivar celebrates its win at Harvard HNMUN 2012

Which college Model UN teams are the best on the circuit? We devised a rankings system that answers this question in order to recognize the top teams on the college circuit for their accomplishments. We clarify in the article our purpose for doing rankings, our philosophy that drives what we value in the rankings, and improvements in our methodology.

There are three internationally prominent conferences that each draw over 2,000 delegates and feature teams from around the world: Harvard National HNMUN in Boston, Harvard WorldMUN which was hosted in Vancouver this year, and the two-part National NMUN conference in New York City. These three conferences are very different from each other in terms of philosophy, culture, and awards system, and most participants would not classify the three into one circuit. However, using our methodology for guidance, we can determine what some of the best teams in the world were for this season and we wanted to recognize them here. With that said, here are the Top International Delegations!

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Teams in the top 50 consistently have multiple award winners at the conferences they attend. SUNY Geneseo is pictured here.

Which college Model UN teams are the best on the circuit? We devised a rankings system that answers this question in order to recognize the top teams on the college circuit for their accomplishments.

Please read the revised methodology article first before jumping into the rankings. We clarify in the article our purpose for doing rankings, our philosophy that drives what we value in the rankings, and improvements in our methodology. Please note that these rankings are for what our methodology describes as the World Division and does not capture results for all of college Model UN. We consider teams that won Outstanding Delegation at NMUN to be the best in the National Division. With that said, here is the World Division Top 50!

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The Best College Model UN Teams: 2011-12 World Division Final Rankings Top 75

by KFC May 13, 2012 0 comments

Which college Model UN teams are the best on the circuit? We devised a rankings system that answers this question in order to recognize the top teams on the college circuit for their accomplishments. Please read the revised methodology article first before jumping into the rankings. We clarify in the article our purpose for doing rankings, our [...]

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How to Run an Effective Crisis Room

by KFC April 30, 2012 0 comments

This article is part of a series focusing on developing crisis committees. This article was written by Katrina Trost and Travis Cunningham, Chargée d’Affaires and Secretary General of Boston University’s BarMUN.   Introduction As Austin mentioned in the first of this series on crisis committees, crisis is definitely the exciting, “sexy” side of contemporary Model UN. [...]

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Why the Montessori Method Works in Model UN

by KFC April 29, 2012 0 comments

The Montessori Model United Nations conference (MMUN) took place this past week in New York City. We tend to visit high school and college conferences, so it’s always refreshing and inspiring to visit a conference with students as young as 4th graders! Last year, we profiled the Montessori MUN conference and had Camille Moro, a Montessori graduate [...]

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How Southwest Florida High Schools Have Become National Powerhouses in Model UN

by KFC April 26, 2012 2 comments

This article is part of a series that investigates the different high school circuits. We previously featured the West Coast and Puerto Rico. This one focuses on Southwest Florida. An upcoming article will focus on a sub-set of the Midwest.  In our geographical analysis of the high school Model UN circuit, we noticed two Sun [...]

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New York University Model United Nations Conference (NYUMUNC) 10-Way Joint Crisis

by KFC April 24, 2012 0 comments

Some conferences do two joint crisis cabinets and it’s challenging enough to pull off. The New York University Model United Nations Conference (NYUMUNC) does ten joint crisis cabinets — they are all interconnected regionally with this year’s focus being South Asia. This new breed of fully-connected and concurrent crisis conferences includes Princeton PICSim, Duke DISCon, [...]

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Five Steps for Starting a Crisis Committee

by KFC April 24, 2012 3 comments

This is a guest post from Austin Matthews, Undersecretary-General at UNA-USA’s GCIMUN and staffer at Texan conferences such as GC Houston, CTMUN, and HAMUN. The introduction is by Kevin Felix Chan.  Best Delegate has been focusing on liveblogging during the peak of the season, but we do want to get back to our roots of [...]

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