University Ranking Watch

Discussion and analysis of international university rankings and topics related to the quality of higher education. Anyone wishing to contact Richard Holmes without worrying about ending up in comments can go to rjholmes2000@yahoo.com

Thursday, August 30, 2007

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Discipline and Intelligence Steve Sailer has a post that compares the Graduate Record Exam results of candidates by intended field of study...

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Advice about Business School Rankings Nunzio Quacquarelli, director of QS Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), has some advice for applicants to busi...
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Monday, August 27, 2007

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College Board and NSC Pearson pay for mistakes A settlement has been reached with regard to the suit brought by test takers who received inc...
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Saturday, August 25, 2007

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Poppleton Blasts the League Tables I have been a fan of Laurie Taylor's s satirical column at the Times Higher Education Supplement (su...
Tuesday, August 21, 2007

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Boycotting the Rankings A number of American liberal arts colleges have refused to contribute to the reputational survey of the US News and ...

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The Ten Happiest Colleges in the US According to the Princeton Review they are: 1. Whitman College (Walla Walla, Washington) 2. Brown 3. ...

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The Princeton Review Rankings The Princeton Review has come out with a variety of rankings . One of them ranks US colleges by how hard they ...
Monday, August 20, 2007

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US News and World Report Top Ten The US News and World Report rankings of American colleges is out. A full report is here . Briefly this is ...
Sunday, August 19, 2007

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The Shanghai Science and Maths Rankings 2007 The full rankings, released earlier this year, are here . Below are the top twenty. 1. Harvard...
Friday, August 17, 2007

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The Shanghai Rankings: Social Science Shanghai Jiao Tong University has also released, earlier this year, research rankings in broad subjec...
Thursday, August 16, 2007

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The Good University Guide The London Times (not the Times Higher Education Supplement ) has just produced its Good University Guide for Bri...
Wednesday, August 15, 2007

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News from Shanghai Shanghai Jiaotong University has just released its 2007 Academic Ranking of World universities. The top 100 can be found ...
Tuesday, August 14, 2007

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Life Imitates Art There is a web site, College Ranking Service , that is produced by " a non-profit organization dedicated to providing...
Sunday, August 12, 2007

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A Bit More About Student Faculty Ratios This blog was originally supposed to be about university ranking in general but is danger of turning...
Friday, August 10, 2007

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Correcting Errors Another site worth reading on law school rankings is MoneyLaw . There is an interesting post on the US News and World Repo...

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Self-assessment by American universities State universities and colleges have come up with a plan to publish essential information on their ...
Saturday, August 04, 2007

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The Wuhan Rankings I have just noticed, via Wikipedia , a world university ranking by the Research Centre for China Science Evaluation at W...
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Friday, August 03, 2007

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International Students in Malaysia QS Quacquarelli Symonds seems to have bad luck with international students in Malaysia. Their topuniversi...

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Rankings Not a Target According to the Kuala Lumpur New Straits Times , the vice-chancellor of Universiti Malaya has said that the universit...
Wednesday, August 01, 2007

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Problems with Law School Rankings Another blog worth looking at is Agoraphilia which, among other things, has posts on the US News and Worl...
Friday, July 27, 2007

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Research Guide: Educational Rankings This is a very good page produced by Boston College with links to sites and articles on university rank...
Wednesday, July 25, 2007

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A Mystery Solved One of the more interesting elements in the Guide to the World's Top Universities by John O'Leary, Nunzio Quacquar...
Sunday, July 22, 2007

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What is a Peer Review? The third Asia Pacific Professional Leaders in Education conference was held in Hong Kong recently. The conference wa...

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The Consequences of Ranking There is an excellent post by Eric Beerkens at Beerkens' Blog reporting on an article by Wendy Nelson Espela...
Saturday, July 21, 2007

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Blog on University Rankings There is a Spanish-language blog on university rankings and other academic matters by A lejandro Pisanty that i...
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