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Ranking the World’s Universities: What it means for your institution’s future

Ranking the World’s Universities: What it means for your institution’s future. Martin Ince Taipei, Taiwan March 24, 2011. …. about me. Founder of these rankings at THES Now with QS rankings system Science and education journalist Rough Guide to the Earth Media adviser and trainer

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Ranking the World’s Universities: What it means for your institution’s future

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  1. Ranking the World’s Universities: What it means for your institution’s future Martin Ince Communications Limited Martin Ince Taipei, Taiwan March 24, 2011

  2. …. about me • Founder of these rankings at THES • Now with QS rankings system • Science and education journalist • Rough Guide to the Earth • Media adviser and trainer • Find me at www.martinince.com Martin Ince Communications Limited

  3. Not such a new idea… • Norrington Table 1963 • US News and World Report 1983 • Times GUG, Macleans, many others • All these are data-rich • 18 main columns in USN Martin Ince Communications Limited

  4. Why international ranking? • Universities the original global industry • Now 3.3 of 150 million students study abroad (OECD 2010) • Four of the five flows: people, money, ideas, services, goods Martin Ince Communications Limited

  5. Why rank universities globally? • Growing student numbers • Globalisation of knowledge • Competition • Marketisation • Rankings drive this process as well as measuring it Martin Ince Communications Limited

  6. Global Universities • Recruit staff and students globally • Publish globally important research • Attract global employers • Are thought leaders in their own countries and internationally Martin Ince Communications Limited

  7. How many world universities?From Anthony van Raan, CWST, Leiden University, Netherlands Martin Ince Communications Limited

  8. So how do we do rank universities? • What happens in a university? • With luck, some of these – • Teaching • Research • Mind expansion • Creation of useful people • We measure them half by expert review and half by quantitative analysis Martin Ince Communications Limited

  9. We believe…. • Academics know about universities • So do employers • So we ask them Martin Ince Communications Limited

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  11. Employers: 5007 in 2010 Martin Ince Communications Limited 11

  12. Biggest ever opinion poll • 20,057 people • 185,669 valid votes • 40 per cent for the academic review • 10 per cent for the employers • This is the qualitative side of the survey Martin Ince Communications Limited

  13. Teaching and learning • Staff/student • Admit this is less satisfactory • OK in a big general institution • Other attempts to be discussed • 20 per cent for this Martin Ince Communications Limited

  14. Research • Citations/ 5 years • Scopus (formerly Thomson) • Per person, not per paper • Another 20 per cent • Well-known biases • Science • English • Getting better over time (Unesco) Martin Ince Communications Limited

  15. International commitment • Is this place serious about being global? • Is it somewhere people will cross oceans to study or work at • 5 per cent staff, 5 per cent students • Netherlands effect Martin Ince Communications Limited

  16. Things that don’t work • Course costs • Library spending • Employment • Teaching quality • Completion and employment • Wealth Martin Ince Communications Limited

  17. Consistency • Eight years in 2011 • Add employer data • Switch from Thomson Reuters to Elsevier • Z-score not anithmetical • Data now very complete • Institutions value this • We will continue to do it Martin Ince Communications Limited

  18. Faculty-level • Arts and humanities • Science • Biomedicine • Technology • Social Sciences • Top 100 • Also citations/paper Martin Ince Communications Limited

  19. And the winner is… • Usually Harvard • But this time Cambridge • Top non-English ETH at 18 • 53 US in top 200, 30 UK • BUT there are 33 nations in the top 200 • Netherlands, Australia • China on the up, 6/200 plus five in Hong Kong SAR • Taiwan 2/200, NTU 94, National Tsing Hua 196 • Nine in top 500 Martin Ince Communications Limited

  20. Other approaches • Shanghai: since 2003 • Nobel Prizes • Fields Medals • Science and Nature • Highly cited • Citations • Per capita • Overlap 142/200 with QS in 2010 Martin Ince Communications Limited

  21. HEEACT • Since 2007 • Number of papers • Impact of papers Martin Ince Communications Limited

  22. Some others • Asian University Rankings • Hong Kong, HKUST, NUS • Third edition in May 2011 • Webometrics – online visibility • Ecole des Mines • Scimago • Various mashups Martin Ince Communications Limited

  23. THE • Attempt to measure teaching • Quantitative + survey • Industrial income 2.5 per cent • International staff and students • Research Impact • Research reputation • Opinion 34.5 • Research 51.5 + 2.5 Martin Ince Communications Limited

  24. Coming next • AHELO • CHERPA • UNU/ Buffalo/ Scopus • Developing world Martin Ince Communications Limited

  25. QS subject rankings • 30+ initial subjects • Academic review • Citations • Employer review • Weighting will vary • Will develop in future years • Start with engineering and technology, World Class April 2 Martin Ince Communications Limited

  26. QS Stars • Reflect institutional diversity Points for research quality, graduate employment, teaching quality and infrastructure But also for international mission, third mission, knowledge transfer and specialist subject rank Not a ranking More at http://tinyurl.com/6kuaxyy Martin Ince Communications Limited

  27. Students and their advisors • 500,000 unique visitors to topuniversities.com in first week • Over five million people have looked at them • Polling confirms that students use rankings • But only part of the picture Martin Ince Communications Limited

  28. University managers • Are we there? • Who else is there? • Up or down? • What sort of university is this • Being there, being where? • Target setting Martin Ince Communications Limited

  29. Governments • Germany: Excellence Initiative €2.9 billion ($4 billion) • France • Malaysia • Japan • Brunei • Netherlands Martin Ince Communications Limited

  30. Universities • Many want to be in top 100 • Red Queen syndrome • Especially in Asia • Drive towards English language • Drive towards concentration of national systems • Middle East innovation, KAUST et al Martin Ince Communications Limited

  31. The future • It won’t go away • More systems • More examination – IREG initiative Martin Ince Communications Limited

  32. Things rankings don’t capture • Teaching and the student experience • Creation of human capital Valuable citizens Life tracking? Again risks western chauvinism Martin Ince Communications Limited

  33. Institutional variation • About 4000 universities • Can’t all be Yale • Modern economy needs full range of people • So other types of institution will remain valid • Time and money Martin Ince Communications Limited

  34. .... Innovation • International campuses • Collaboration and joint degrees • For-profit universities • Universities as validators • Distance learning Martin Ince Communications Limited

  35. Texture • Subjects • QS and Shanghai faculty level • QS to go deeper • CHE European subject data • AHELO and CHERPA • Engineering and economics Bound to be more detail More valuable for governments, students, business and managers Martin Ince Communications Limited

  36. The summary • Rankings are valuable • They show Heisenberg’s principle in action • They will grow in importance • They will grow in variety and quality • You cannot let them tell you what your university should be: that is what you are paid for • Governments should also appreciate this Martin Ince Communications Limited

  37. Thank you • QS colleagues in London and Asia • Elsevier for their contribution to the rankings • You for your attention and for this invitation Martin Ince Communications Limited

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