Composite Ranking of Computer Science schools

PPofEngrDr
Sat, 26 Dec 2020 00:40:09 +0000

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I expect Caltech has highly research productive faculty, yet Caltech and other smaller colleges will inevitably be ranked relatively poorly because they have a small fraction of the total number of faculty members at larger colleges,.

I don’t think ranking devalue the research quality. I do agree that smaller colleges have disadvantage over larger ones just by sheer number game. Irrespective of the research quality, for smaller colleges it is practically impossible to produce that many researches in same amount of time. I noticed a big difference, when compared to those large colleges with small ones, larger ones have more breadth in categories, hence pie chart seems more distributed than smaller ones which is more looks concentrated.
That makes selection of those individual area more important.