College and University Ranking Systems: Global Perspectives and American Challenges

Examines how higher education ranking systems function, how other countries use ranking systems, and the impact of college rankings in the United States on student access, choice, and opportunity

University Rankings: Evidence and a Conceptual Framework

University ranking has high public visibility, the ranking business has flourished, and institutions of higher education have not been able to ignore it. This study of university ranking presents general considerations of ranking and institutional responses to it, particularly considering reactions to ranking, ranking as a self-fulfilling prophecy, and ranking as a means of transforming qualities into quantities. The authors present a conceptual framework of university ranking based on three propositions and carry out a descriptive statistical analysis of U.S. and international ranking data to evaluate those propositions. The first proposition of university ranking is that ranking systems are demarcated by a high degree of stability, equilibrium, and path dependence. The second proposition links ranking to institutional identity. The third proposition posits that rankings function as a catalyst for institutional isomorphism. The conclusion reviews some important new developments in university ranking

University ranking methodologies. An interview with Ben Sowter about the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking

University rankings represent a controversial issue in the debate about higher education policy. One of the best known university ranking is the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS), published annually since 2004 by Quacquarelli Symonds ltd, a company founded in 1990 and headquartered in London. QS provides a ranking based on a score calculated by weighting six different indicators. The 2015 edition, published in October 2015, introduced major methodological innovations and, as a consequence, many universities worldwide underwent major changes of their scores and ranks. Ben Sowter, head of division of intelligence unit of Quacquarelli Symonds, responds to 15 questions about the new QS methodology.

Aggregate ranking of the world's leading universities

The paper presents a methodology for calculating the aggregate global university ranking (Aggregated Global University Ranking, or AGUR), which consists of an automated presentation of the comparable lists of names for different universities from particular global university rankings and a simple procedure of aggregating particular global university rankingsyesBelgorod State Universit

Australian university rankings

Australian university ranking

Effective Strategies for Increasing Citation Frequency

Due to the effect of citation impact on The Higher Education (THE) world university ranking system, most of the researchers are looking for some helpful techniques to increase their citation record. This paper by reviewing the relevant articles extracts 33 different ways for increasing the citations possibilities. The results show that the article visibility has tended to receive more download and citations. This is probably the first study to collect over 30 different ways to improve the citation record. Further study is needed to explore and expand these techniques in specific fields of study in order to make the results more precisely.Available online: http://ssrn.com/abstract=234458

Побудова багатофакторної моделі світових рейтингових систем університетів

Now we have a lot of world ranking system that are based on a set of indicators for the universities evaluation, so it is difficult determine which indicators are essential in the ranking systems. So the aim of the article is to provide an integrated multi-factor model of university ranking systems. The influential world and world university ranking systems are analyzed. Factor analysis of the influential world and world university ranking systems based on a retrospective analysis of three years were applied. Research in several groups and with normalized ranking indicators values for stable and the objective result was conducted. Integrated multi-factor model of world university ranking systems is proposed. The proposed model allows to evaluate the majority of the world's universities.Рассматривается проблема многофакторной оценки университетов рейтинговыми системами. Проанализированы влиятельные мировые и мировые рейтинговые системы университетов. Проведен факторный анализ влиятельных мировых и мировых рейтинговых систем. Исследования проводились в нескольких группах, а также с учетом нормированных значений индикаторов для обеспечения стабильного и объективного результата. Предложена интегрированная многофакторная модель мировых рейтинговых систем университетов.Розглядається проблема багатофакторної оцінки університетів рейтинговими системами. Проаналізовано впливові світові та світові рейтингові системи університетів. Проведено факторний аналіз впливових світових і світових рейтингових систем. Дослідження проводилось в декількох групах, а також з урахуванням нормованих значень індикаторів для забезпечення стабільного і об'єктивного результату. Запропоновано інтегровану багатофакторну модель світових рейтингових систем університетів

Impact of MBA Programs’ Business Analytics Breadth on Salary and Job Placement: The Role of University Ranking

Although many business schools have started to offer business analytics programs and courses for their MBA students, they lack understanding about how these efforts translate into job market gains for their graduates and whether all business schools have a level playing field. To bridge this gap, we use signaling theory to investigate the impacts that the business analytics breadth (BAB) level and university ranking of MBA programs have on graduates’ future employment success in terms of salary and job placement. We collected and analyzed data on business analytics-relevant courses that the top 89 business schools in the United States according to Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) offered. Our findings show the vital role of university ranking in determining the efficacy of BAB to produce job market gains for students: university ranking moderated the effect of business analytics offerings on post-graduation salary and job placement. These findings provide interesting insights for researchers and business schools interested in understanding the return on investment in business analytics programs

Asian top universities in six world university ranking systems

There are a variety of ranking systems for universities throughout the different continents of the world. The majority of the world ranking systems have paid special attention toward evaluation of universities and higher education institutions at the national and international level. This paper tries to study the similarities and status of top Asian universities in the list of top 200 universities by these world ranking systems. Findings show that there are some parallelisms among these international rankings. For example it was found some correlations between QS-Webometrics rankings (R= 0.78); QS-THE rankings (R= 0.53); and Shanghai-HEEACT rankings (R= 0.58). The highest correlation rate belongs to QS-Webometrics (R=0.78). The findings show no evidence to prove that the origin country of ranking system has any bias toward the rank of universities of its own country among other countries. For instance QS ranking of the United States classifies many universities of China and Japan as top Asian universities. HEEACT Ranking System of Taiwan includes just one university of Taiwan in the high ranking category (as other rankings do). Shanghai Ranking of China assigns a lower grade to universities of China and Hong Kong in comparison with QS ranking of the USA. Finally, some suggestions are made to improve the benefits of the ranking systems in order to promote the situation of higher education in the world, and recommendations for combining the indicators of these ranking systems to have a more comprehensive one for the world