Saturday, April 16, 2016

Some fairly new news from THE

The latest of many spin offs from the THE world university rankings is a list of 150 universities less than 50 years old. The data is extracted from the world rankings released at the end of last year. THE have, however, reduced the weighting given to their academic reputation survey and so the results are a little different.

Is it possible that THE are thinking about reducing the weighting for the reputation survey in this year's world rankings?

Here are the top ten new universities with their overall scores and then the overall scores in the World University Rankings in brackets. It can be seen that changing the weighting for this indicator does in some cases make a difference, although not a spectacular one.

Place	University	Overall score
1	Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne Switzerland	76.8 (76.1)
2	Nanyang Technological University Singapore	72.5 (68.2)
3	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	70.7 (67.2)
4	Maastricht University Netherlands	66.1 (59.9)
5	Pohang University of Science and Technology Korea	65.5 (56.9)
6	Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology	60.8 (53)
7	University of Konstanz Germany	58.9 (50.8)
8	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Germany	58.6 (54.5)
9	Pierre and Marie Curie University France	58.2 (57)
10	Scuola Superiore Normale Pisa Italy	57.3 (50.2)

Most of the 150 universities were outside the top 200 in the world rankings and did not receive an overall score (although it could be calculated easily enough) so there is some new data here.

As expected the young universities rankings have received a lot of publicity from the world media. Here's a sample.