THES World University Ranking - 2010

anonamous
Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:42:29 +0000

Heres my 2 cents.

Both reputation and research are equally valid factors in ranking universities; it really depends on what you’re looking for. The research ranking (ARWU) would reflect the dominance of PhD programs, whereas THES would probable reflect more about its overall layman prestige/reputation.

The QS ranking is not credible for one reason: its criteria of international faculty/student, and student/faculty ratio - how is this related to the quality of a university?? If you look at the academic peer review or the employer review sections of the QS ranking, then it looks alot like the THES and ARWU with the usual suspects in top 10 (HYPSM+Berk+Caltech+Oxbridge).

Its international faculty/studio criteria allow british univerisites (most notably UCL and Imperial) to rank so highly; because they have much more international students than other US universities.