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, September 16, 2010

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Alexandria University According to the THE rankings Alexandria University in Egypt (no. 147 overall) is the fourth university in the world f...
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The Good News There are some worthwhile improvements in the new THE World University Rankings. First the weighting given to the subjective o...

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First the Bad News about the THE Rankings There is something seriously wrong with the citations indicator data. I am doing some checking rig...
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Highlights of the THE Rankings The top ten are: 1. Harvard 2. Caltech 3. MIT 4. Stanford 5. Princeton 6. Cambridge 6. Oxford 8. UC Berkeley ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

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The new THE World University Rankings are out. Discussion follows in a few hours.

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HEEACT Rankings Out The Taiwan Rankings are out . They are based on articles and citations over the last eleven years and the last year, hig...

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Academic Fraud in China An article by Sam Geall in The New Humanist shows something of the other side of China's rapid scientific devel...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

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Access to Rankings Data Global Higher Ed has an excellent article by Kris Olds and Susan Robertson about the need for transparency in the c...

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Yet More Reactions to the QS As the world holds its breath waiting for the THE World University Rankings here are a few more reactions t...
Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Ranking Research Impact A team at the University of Western Australia has ranked the world' top 500 universities by research impact. ...
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Thursday, September 09, 2010

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More Reactions to the QS Rankings Australian Higher Education Sector Down in Rankings and Nervous on International Enrolments AIEC QUEST Aus...
Wednesday, September 08, 2010

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Some Reactions to the 2010 QS Rankings Cambridge Knocks Harvard Off Top in University League San Francisco Chronicle Nine Taiwan universiti...

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Cambridge Beats Harvard -- Sort of The big news from the QS World University Rankings today is that Cambridge is finally top after trailing...
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Saturday, September 04, 2010

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QS announces Date Times Higher Education have already announced that their World University Rankings will be published on September 16th. T...
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Friday, September 03, 2010

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World Class Universities as a Measure of System Quality This a list of the percentage of each country's universities that are included i...
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Thursday, September 02, 2010

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New Rankings on the Way Times Higher Education have announced that their new rankings will be published on September 16th and have revealed...
Saturday, August 28, 2010

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From THE I am reproducing Phil Baty's column from Times Higher Education in its entirety One of the things that I have been keen to do ...
Monday, August 23, 2010

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America' Best Colleges 2011 US News and World Report's Ameica's Best Colleges 2011 is now out. The top ten National Universiti...

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Shanghai Rankings: Shifting Research Landscape My article in University World News on the 2010 Academic Ranking of World Universisities can...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

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More from THE Phil Baty in Times Higher Education gives us some clues about what the forthcoming THE World University Rankings will contain...
Monday, August 16, 2010

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Why international students are not a good indicator of quality Times Higher Educatio n describes a dispute between Coventry University and ...

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Big Names and Unsung Heroes In Times Higher Education , Phil Baty hints that the reduction in the weighting for subjective indicators in the...

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Another Ranking The ic4u ranking of 200 top universities is based on web popularity. The top five are: 1. Stanford 2. MIT 3. National Auton...
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The Forbes Ranking The 2010 edition of the Forbes College Rankings is now out. These are basically an evaluation from the students' vie...
Saturday, August 14, 2010

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Long Term Trends in the Shanghai Rankings The Shanghai Rankings are noted for their methodological stability. Whereas frequent changes comb...
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