Thursday, December 23, 2010

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Top US Colleges by Salary PayScale has published its ranking of US colleges by mid-career median salary. The top five are: 1. Harvey Mu...
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Saturday, December 04, 2010

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Can 25 Million Citations be Wrong? Perhaps not but a few hundred might. University World News has an article by Phil Baty , deputy edi...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

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Is there a Future for Citations? simplification administrative  has some caustic comments on the role of self-citation and reciprocal cita...
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Monday, November 29, 2010

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Priorities An article by William Patrick Leonard in the Korea Herald discusses how this year's rankings by Shanghai Jiao Tong Univers...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

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Comment on the New York Times Article This is from Paul Wouters at CWTS , Leiden University "However, the reason for this high pos...
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The Influence of Rankings From an announcement about merit scholarships from The Islamic Development Bank. "The successful candida...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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Correction A previous post, "Debate, Anyone" contained some data about comparative rates of self-citation among various univeris...

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Article in New York Times The New York Times has a long article , which is being quoted globally, about the THE World University Rankings....
Sunday, November 14, 2010

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Another Ranking An organisation called Eduroute has produced a ranking of universities by "web quality". The idea sounds intere...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

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Article by Philip Altbach Inside Higher Education has a substantial and perceptive article on international university rankings by Philip...
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Saturday, October 23, 2010

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Navarra Round Table Presentations by Nian Cai Liu, Zhuo Lin Feng, Daniel Torres-Salinas, Jean Rapp, Phil Baty and Isidro Aguillo at the Rank...
Monday, October 18, 2010

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The THE-QS World Universities Rankings, 2004-2009 See here for a draft of an article on the THE-QS rankings.
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Sunday, October 17, 2010

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Debate, anyone? Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters have said that they wish to engage and that they will be happy to debate their ...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

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Auditing University Rankings The Chronicle of Higher Education reports on a meeting of the International Rankings Expert Group's (IREG)...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

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Return of the British Gift for Understatement One of the tiresome things about the ranking season is the mania for inflated adjectives that ...

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The THE Life Sciences Ranking (subscription required) First is MIT, then Harvard, then Stanford. Nothing to argue about there. For research...

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Rankings Undermined by Flawed Indicator See commentary in University World News
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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From the Straits Times of Singapore Students at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have been dismayed by the poor performance in ...
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Sunday, September 26, 2010

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Something is Awry A comment by the President of the University of Alberta. "This year, Times Higher Education partnered with Thompson ...
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Completely Obscure The President of the University of Groningen has commented on the THE 2010-11 World University rankings: "President...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

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Here We Go Again Times Higher Education have released the ranking of the world's top universities in engineering and technology (subscr...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

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Missing the Point One of the most depressing things about university rankings is that whenever rankers make an error or use inappropraiate m...

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From the Economist But I suspect that today's league tables say as much about the motives behind those who compile them (and, indeed, th...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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Selected Comments from Times Higher Education Mike Reddin 17 September, 2010 World university rankings take national ranking systems from t...

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Texas Opted Out From the Texas Tribune "University officials said UT's [University of Texas] absence is not due to an epic fall — ...