World University Rankings 2017

Corbett
Thu, 09 Mar 2017 16:53:23 +0000

Arguably the biggest bias in that ranking is giving a full 10 percent of the formula to the percentage of international students and faculty, as a proxy for how well the schools are respected in other countries. That’s nonsense. … The British newspaper that sponsors that ranking undoubtedly knows this, but it wants to appeal to its audience.

There are multiple “world university rankings”. The rankings referenced in this thread are the QS World University Rankings, which are different from the Times Higher Education World University Rankings.

However, both rankings consider the percentage of international students, so your objection applies to both.