The THE Reputation Rankings
Times Higher Education have constructed a reputation ranking from the data collected for last year's World University Rankings. There is a weighting of two thirds for research and one third for postgraduate teaching. The top five are:
1. Harvard
2. MIT
3. Cambridge
4. UC Berkeley
5. Stanford
Scores are given only for the top fifty universities. Then another fifty are sorted in bands of ten without scores. Evidently, the number of responses favouring universities outside the top 100 was so small that it was not worth listing.
This means that the THE reputational survey reveals significant differences between Harvard and MIT or between Cambridge and Oxford but it would be of no help to those wondering whether to study or work at the University of Cape Town or the University of Kwazulu-Natal or Trinity College Dublin or University College Dublin.
The scores for research reputation (top fifty for total reputation scores only) show a moderate correlation with the THE citations indicator (.422) and, perhaps surprisingly, a higher correlation with the citations per faculty score on the QS World University Rankings of 2010 (.538).
looking at the QS academic survey, which asked only about research, we can see that there was an insignificant correlation of .213 between the QS scores and the score for citations per faculty in the QS rankings (THE reputation ranking top 50 only). However, there was a higher correlation between the QS survey and the THE citations indicator of .422, the same as that between the THE research reputation scores and the the THE citations indicator.
Comparing the two research surveys with a third party, the citations indicator in the Scimago 2010 rankings, the THE research reputation survey did better with a correlation of .438 compared to an insignificant .188 for the QS academic survey.
This seems to suggest that the THE reputational survey does a better job at differentiating between the world's elite universities. But once we leave the top 100 it is perhaps less helpful and there may still be a role for the QS rankings
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Here is another Reputation Ranking based on European Commission data. It is calculated using a algorithm similar to Googles PageRank and is reflecting success in European Research networks Winner: not Oxford or Cambridge but Leuven and ETH!
It would seem that the Times Higher Education and the QS World University rankings agree to some extent about the top 5 universities. It would be interesting to view the comments of surveys administered to students at each of the ranked schools as to the quality of the education. It would also be useful to view detailed ranking information regarding schools that are not in the top 100 or top 600 (QS) since students may be attending one of these such schools.
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