International Rankings | AAUDE

With the announcement about the international rankings by QS/U.S. News and Times Higher Education/Thomson-Reuters, there has been considerable discussion about the planned methodology and problems encountered.  This page will attempt to be a collection point or reference for topics on this issue.

Content will be added over time.  Please send any suggestions to Rebecca and feel free to use the comment function at the bottom for discussion. Thanks to John Goldin for the jumpstart on this content!!

Related listserv entries (members only*)

• Email exchange among G13DE institutions (provided by Michelle Broderick)

Publisher and data sites

• Times Higher Education (THE) Supplement
  • World University Rankings 2010
    
  • Methodology
  • Data in Excel
  • Announcement about Fall 2010 release
• QS Quacquarelli Symonds (source for THE rankings through 2009)
• U.S. News: World's Best Universities
• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) from Institute of Higher Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai
  • Global Research University Profiles Survey (for ARWU)
• Higher Education Evaluation & Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEAC)
• Professional Ranking of World Universities from École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris
  
• Berlin principles on ranking of higher education institutions
• High Impact Universities (2010 Data file)
• CHERPA Network. Funded by the European Commission and carried out in cooperation with European engineering and management groups.
  • http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/cherpa-network-based-in-europe-wins-tender-to-develop-alternative-global-ranking-of-universities/
  • http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/index_en.htm
• Global Higher Ed Weblog (Select entries related to rankings)
  • http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/governing-world-university-rankers-an-agenda-for-much-needed-reform/
  • http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2010/09/21/rankings-a-case-of-blurry-pictures-of-the-academic-landscape/
  • http://globalhighered.wordpress.com/2010/09/15/the-2010-the-world-university-rankings-powered-by-thomson-reuters/

Information about methodology and 2010 data collections

Collected from AAUDE members and culled from the listserv.(In development)

• Thomson Reuters Data Collection tool
• Ad hoc query: Plans to participate in 2010 Thomson Reuters (Ohio State)

Items related to international rankings

• Harzing.com, website of Anne-Wil Harzing who is Professor in International Management at the University of Melbourne, Australia
• Wikipedia article on world rankings
• Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education (from June 9, 2006 article in Chronicle of Higher Education )
• The view from Slovenia, pointed to by Wikipedia article (hardcore look at Shanghai, including alternate weightings; also includes excel spreadsheets with some Shanghai data)
• Another alternate analysis, from University Metrics
• Berkeley in-house publication article on coming in 2nd in 2004 on Times
• Chonicle article May 2007
• The World100 (Organization connected to The Knowledge Partnership, a higher education consulting group) 
• Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
• Ranking by web popularity
• An individual freelancer's web-based ranking showing relationship to Shanghai ranking.
• Announcement of EU CHERPA rankings
• European Commission  Directorate-General for Education and Culture
• Blog: University Ranking Watch

Items on rankings in general

• Shanghai has a deailed page of links on rankings
• Good set of links on topic of world rankings (Edinburgh)
• Wikipedia article on college rankings (not just world rankings) This is a very good source.
• Bibliography on topic of rankings  (prepared at University of Illinois library)

 Items on international higher education

• New Metric System (Inside Higher Ed, 10/6/2010)
• HEEACT Press Release (10/6/2010)
• O Canada (Inside Higher Ed, 7/26/2010) 

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