The THE – QS World University Rankings attract a great deal of interest and scrutiny each year, one piece of frequent feedback is the comparing “apples with oranges” observation. The simple fact is that the London School of Economics bears little resemblance to Harvard University in terms of funding, scale, location, mission, output or virtually [...]
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Apologies for being silent for so long. Not only have we been exceptionally busy compiling the latest version of the World University Rankings, but I am also pleased to announce that I have become a father for first time – further disrupting my plans to update frequently.
We have finished our final checking and analysis for [...]
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Tracking all the papers and citations data we need from the Scopus database to fuel our evaluations is quite a challenge and our process has always resulted in some discrepancies between the results we are using and the results that you can actually retrieve from Scopus at given moment. Scopus is an ever-changing database, not [...]
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I have just returned from a trip to South Korea and Japan where I was presenting the methodology and results of the QS.com Asian University Rankings (AUR) and speaking to a number of universities about the implications of the results in both general and specific terms. Inevitably, as with any ranking upon publication, some institutions [...]
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Brief outline of an idea for a global university classification system that could add context to our rankings – or anyone else’s.
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Some helpful fellow in Germany has plotted the location of the Top 100 universities in both the THE – QS World University Rankings and the Shanghai Jiao Tong exercise on a friendly, interactive Google map to be found here www.university-rankings.net
There are some interestingcontrasts between the two maps even when only looking at the Top 100. [...]
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Financial factors are subject to economic influences far beyond the control of the subject institutions.
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No ranking has got the perfect solution – nor is it ever likely to; but some of the pitfalls, and some of the strengths, of different indicators are not always as evident as they might appear.
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Examining the reality that many domestic ranking systems seem not to provide tables of old results
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New global ranking out of Russia brings the validity of all rankings into question
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