International college rankings

[barrons]

<p>As I suspected The Times ranking is bunk.</p>

<p>[Rankings</a> Go Global :: Inside Higher Ed :: Higher Education’s Source for News, and Views and Jobs](<a href=“http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/06/carey]Rankings”>http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/05/06/carey)</p>

[UCBChemEGrad]

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The Times Higher, meanwhile, seems to have adopted somewhat of a “rank first, ask questions later” approach, revising its methods on the fly and leaving people like the unlucky Malaysian vice chancellor to suffer the consequences. Half of each institution’s score is based on a non-scientific email survey of academics and employers, and the results reflect a response rate of less than one percent. There’s arguably a bias towards universities located in the United Kingdom and its former colonies (which represent three of the top five and nine of the top 25), and individual institutions have seen huge variations in their placement from year to year.

Wow…In contrast, USNews claims 51% response rate to its survey.</p>