About the World's Best Colleges Rankings
How are the World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings different from the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings?
- First, none of the data used in the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings is used to compute any of the World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings. The world rankings are based on the THE-QS World University Rankings, which are produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds. Quacquarelli Symonds does all the data collection and calculations for the World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings.
- Second, the methodology used to compute the World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings is different in many key areas from what we use in the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools. It's true that both the America's Best and the World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings use peer surveys. However, the survey process used to calculate peer assessment and recruiter reviews in the World's Best rankings are conducted very differently. Because of the limitations and the availability of cross-country comparative data, the world ranking system relies heavily on research performance measured through citations per faculty member. The U.S. News rankings do not use citation analysis.
- The America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings rely heavily on student and school-specific data—such as scores on admission tests, graduation rates, retention rates and financial resources—that are not part World's Best Colleges and Universities because such student and school-specific data can't be compared internationally.
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Correction - University of North Carolina
In the Top 200 rankings for 2008, data from two University of North Carolina's Chapel Hill and Greensboro campuses were merged together as one unit as the basis to calculate the scores. These are two distinct and autonomous institutions and will be reflected as such in 2009 rankings.
Reader Comments
world peace and global warming
this is our world and it is changing day by day due to the human activities so we shuld try to minimize that and we all should pay contribution for the improvemetn of our earth. so we should think of our world and environment
international ranking of universities--Shanghai
There have been many changes in curriculum,as dictated be the Bologna Declaration to
adopt the"LMD",namely the sequence from "bachelor degree"to"master of science"to
"PhD;"in teh European Union,by 2O1O;This is certainly a real challenge,as it takes a
lot of time to switch from the traditional scheme to the new one.Such changes require
patience and courage,as the three pillars of any sound educational system remain:the
linkages between"research","teaching"and"extension,"as was practiced in the US for many
decades,roughly since the enactment of the"Morril Act"in the 186Os.To switch from a tra-
ditional system to a new one requires (a)clarity of objectives,(b)coherence in the
tri-partite sequence,i.e.,research,teaching,and extension.All in all,this new scheme is
nothing but a translation of the so-called"Engine of growth"as put forward by the Univer-
sity of Chicago,in the early 196Os as echoed by the late Professor Theodore w.schultz
who share the Nobel Prize of Economics,in 1979,with Professor Arthur Lewis,even though
theirs theories of growth are opposite to each other.Finally,the"learning to learn"
concept has been in the forefront ,replacing the so-called"learning to do,"as the Scholar
from the University of Chicago,Mary Bowman,expressed it"learning to learn is more impotant than learning to do,;;;;;"
business mangement
A University in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas area is extremely careful with respect to the College of Business. The UNIVERSITY OG TEXAS AT ARLINGTON appeals on a world-wide (including China) basis and is considered selective in Texas. With over 5,000 students in the college of Business with high admission standards I would rather hire a student who is trained in the broader competitive market tradition. Dallas Fort Worth is the number one metroplex in obtaining jobs for new graduates. Any student graduating from a "rust belt" university is choosing to be unemployed. Job fairs on compus are obviously bias toward Texas (DFW) trained graduates.
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