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About me
Phil Baty
Rankings Editor
Twitter: @Phil_Baty Email: [email protected]
Visit: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk
Growing influence among students
Source: IDP research, October 2012
Why Rank? Globalisation of research
40 per cent of research papers published by world top 200
universities are internationally co-authored
7 million researchers worldwide are working with an annual R&D
spend of $1,000 billion
Source/Royal Society
A powerful geopolitical indicator.
Rankings "help by encouraging… more informed policy
making... they can stimulate national debate and focused
analysis... which in turn may lead to positive policy
changes at system level.”
European Universities Association, April 2013
“Rankings… encourage institutions to move beyond their
internal conversations to participate in broader national and
international discussions…
“Rankings… foster collaboration, such as research
partnerships, student and faculty exchange programmes”
US Institute for Higher Education Policy, May 2009
“In God we trust, all others bring data”
W. Edwards Deming
The four key pillars:
Teaching
Knowledge
Transfer
Global
outlook
Research
World University Rankings:
Methodology
Methodology used since 2011-12 World University Rankings .
Teaching – the learning environment (30 %)
Reputation survey – Teaching (15 %)
Staff-to-Student Ratio (4.5 %)
PhDs awarded/Undergraduate degrees awarded (2.25 %)
PhDs awarded/Academic staff (6 %)
Institutional income/Academic staff (2.25 %)
International Outlook – staff, students and research (7.5 %)
International students/total students (2.5 %)
International academic staff/total academic staff (2.5 %)
Scholarly papers with at least one international
author/Total scholarly papers (2.5 %)
Industry income – innovation (2.5%)
Research income from industry/Academic Staff (2.5 %)
Research – volume, income and reputation (30%)
Reputation survey – research (18%)
Research income (PPP)/Academic staff (6%)
Scholarly papers/Academic staff and research staff (6%)
Citations – research influence (30 %)
Citation impact
(normalised average citations per paper) (30%)
“We broadly accept the criteria used by THE, which is why our policies are
focused on the same areas.”
David Willetts, UK minister for universities
“The data collected for the THEWUR provide a useful set of indicators
which enable us to analyse the dynamics of higher education development
and to comparatively relate excellence to policies”
Dirk Van Damme, Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress
Division (IMEP) at the OECD
“The THE rankings are the principal yardstick we should look to”
Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development,
India.
“Times Higher Education rankings – now increasingly seen as the gold
standard.”
Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, Vice Chancellor, Robert Gordon University
THE WUR TOP 200 – RESULTS TRENDS
2011
2012
2013
70
75
80
85
90
Asia
Europe
95
North America
Oceania
100
105
110
115
120
THE WUR TOP 200 – RESULTS TRENDS (TEACHING)
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings
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