Sunday, November 22, 2009

Education

Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings

The World’s Best Colleges rankings are now online

November 21, 2008 01:47 PM ET | Robert Morse | Permanent Link | Print

U.S. News has just published our first World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings. These rankings are based on data from the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings which were produced in association with QS Quacquarelli Symonds. One of the world's leading networks for careers and education, QS Quacquarelli Symonds has been publishing world rankings since 2004.

The World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings include the following rankings: Top 200 Universities Worldwide, the Top 30 Asian Universities, the Top 30 European Universities, the Top 20 Canadian Universities, and the Top 20 Australian and New Zealand Universities. The listing also includes the Top 50 global rankings in the fields of arts and humanities; engineering and IT; life sciences and biomedicine; natural sciences; and social sciences.

How are the World's Best Colleges rankings different from U.S. News's America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings?

  • First, none of the data from the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools rankings are used in the World's Best Colleges and Universities rankings. QS Quacquarelli Symonds does all the data collection and calculations for the World's Best Colleges rankings.
  • Second, the methodology used to compute the World's Best Colleges is different in many key areas. The World's Best Colleges rankings use six criteria: academic peer review, employer review, student/faculty ratio, citations per faculty member, the proportion of international faculty, and the proportion of international students.

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About this Blog

Robert Morse is director of data research for U.S. News & World Report and has worked at the magazine since 1976. He develops the methodologies and surveys for the America's Best Colleges and America's Best Graduate Schools annual rankings, keeping an eye on higher-education trends to make sure the rankings offer prospective students the best analysis available. Morse Code provides deeper insights into the methodologies and is a forum for commentary and analysis of college, grad and other rankings.

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