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

Saturday, February 27, 2010

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How Much Instability? Phil Baty in Times Higher Education writes about fluctuations in the old THE-QS rankings "Magazines that compile...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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RateMyProfessors and Amy Bishop Richard Vedder of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity produces an interesting US ranking ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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A Survey from Thomson Reuters A survey was conducted recently for Thomson Reuters to provide input for the forthcoming Times Higher Educatio...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

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Starting Again This , in an article by Phil Baty of THE in The Australian , sounds promising. "So we've started again. For 2010, Th...

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Chinese University Rankings Click here for a survey by Nick Clark in the World Education News and Reviews

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Quality Assurance and Ranking of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific and Taiwan Click here for another presentation from the CHEA Internationa...

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Presentation by Robert Morse Click here for a comprehensive and informative presentation by Robert Morse of US News at the CHEA Internatio...

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Tales of Jiggery-Pokery Phil Baty argues in yesterday's Times Higher Education that, despite the "jiggery-pokery" employed by...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

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How Good is LSE at Economics? The answer is very good but there seem to be a few US universities that are better. Tilburg University has jus...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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Who's Interested in Ranking? The country share of vistors to this blog is as follows. Noticeably absent are China and Russia unless they...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

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Comparing Ranking Sites I recently came across a site called StrategicFIRST that ranks websites according to traffic and indicates an estim...

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The War of the THE-QS Succession There is a comment by Nunzio Quacquarelli on the QS topuniversities rankings blog. Here is an extract: ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

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New Webometrics Ranking The new Webometrics ranking is out. Some interesting points The top 20 are all in the USA. The best non-US universi...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

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More Rising Stars The rise of China to scientific superpower status has been well documented. See here for a report by Jonathon Adams, Chr...
Friday, February 05, 2010

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Who is Biased? There has been a lot of discussion about university rankings recently. In Times Higher Education , Phil Baty refers to a com...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

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Article in the Chronicle The Chronicle of Higher Education has a substantial article on world rankings by Aisha Labi. She describes a numb...
Saturday, January 30, 2010

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New Report A comprehensive and interesting report on university rankings from the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education is available...

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Something from QS Finally something has appeared on the QS Intelligence Unit Blog . Ben Sowter writes: "The QS World University Ranking...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

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Opinion Surveys in University Rankings In this week's Times Higher Education , Phil Baty discusses the role of reputational surveys in u...
Monday, January 25, 2010

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The Rise of China An article in the Financial Times describes the impressive growth of scientific research in China "China has experie...
Monday, January 18, 2010

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Batting for Britain A notorious feature of the THE-QS rankings was its over-valuation of British and Australian universities. It would s...
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

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Is anything happening at QS? Although there has been a lot of activity, so far mainly rhetorical, at Times Higher Education and Thomson Reut...
Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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The Kiplinger Rankings are Out Kiplinger has produced its 2009-2010 ranking of US universities . This is very much a student consumer rankin...
Sunday, January 10, 2010

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The European Union Rankings The European Union is trying to develop a new ranking system to rival the existing ones. The motivation is fairl...
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Global Institutional Profiles Project Thomson Reuters have set up a new site here. It contains information, although not much so far, abou...
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