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THE Impact Rankings: A Tale of Canadian Dominance

Yesterday, we talked about the Shanghai Subject rankings.  Today I want to switch over to the Times Higher Rankings.  Not their flagship World University Rankings, because those are basically a slightly more sophisticated version of ARWU’s bibliometrics with a popularity survey attached (plus a little bit of institutionally-supplied data about research income and internationalization).  And from a Canadian perspective they always provide pretty much the same story: Toronto 1, UBC 2, McGill 3.    I want to focus on a more

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November 28, 2023 No Comments

The Fracturing of Global Rankings

Interesting news out of China last week, as three major research universities – Lanzhou University, Renmin University and Nanjing University (the last of which is a genuine global player)  announced that they would stop participating in annual rankings conducted by overseas rankings agencies.  The purported reason?  Because, apparently, they wanted to focus more on delivering “education with Chinese characteristics,” echoing a recent call from Xi Jinping to universities to avoid “copy(ing) foreign standards and models when we build world-class universities

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May 19, 2022 No Comments

Two Rankings Stories You May Have Missed

Today I want to discuss two interesting developments in rankings, one purely American and the other intriguingly transatlantic. The first is a new set of rankings published by Third Way, a vaguely centre-left Foundation based in Washington DC under the direction of Michael Itzkowitz, an Obama administration appointee who directed the creation of the College Scorecard. Suffice to say Itzkowitz has spent a long time thinking about how to use data to compare colleges’ efforts with respect to public policy

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February 2, 2022 No Comments

Jumping to Conclusions on Rankings

You may have seen stories in Inside Higher Ed and University World News about the QS World Rankings, and specifically, a claim by a Senior Researcher at Berkeley named Igor Chirikov that QS’s conflicts of interest “may produce significant distortions in global university rankings”.  Cue much clucking on the interwebs about issues with rankings. All I can say, having read the paper, and having some idea of what QS does, is that the word “may” is doing a fair bit of work in that

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May 12, 2021 3 Comments

A New Set of International Rankings (II)

The Times Higher Education “Impact” Rankings (which I described yesterday) just dropped a couple of hours ago.  You can browse the results here.  The main news you readers need to know is that CANADA IS AWESOME (at least if you give any credence to these rankings).  McMaster came second overall, UBC third, U Montréal seventh, and five other institutions (Waterloo, York, Toronto, Laval and Ottawa) making the top 100. McMaster also came first overall in the category “decent work and economic growth”

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April 3, 2019 No Comments

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