In recent years there have been attempts to construct
rankings that combine several global rankings. The University of New South
Wales has produced an aggregate ranking based on the “Big Three” rankings, the
Shanghai ARWU, Times Higher Education (THE), and QS. AppliedHE of Singapore has produced a ranking
that combines these three plus Leiden Ranking and Webometrics.
The latest aggregate ranking is from BlueSky Thinking, a
website devoted to research and insights in higher education. This aggregates
the big three rankings plus the Best Global Universities published by US
News.
There are some noticeable differences between the rankings.
The University of California Berkeley is fourth in the US News rankings but 27th
in QS. The National University of Singapore is 11th in QS but 71st
in ARWU.
The top of the aggregate ranking is unremarkable. Harvard
leads followed by Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, and Oxford.
There have been some significant changes over the last five
years, with universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Saudi
Arabia, and Australia recording significant improvements, while a number of US institutions,
including Ohio State University, Boston University and the University of
Minnesota, have fallen.
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