brussels 25.06.2014: times higher education world university rankings

aPhil Baty

Editor

Times Higher Education World University

Rankings, UK

About me

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Growing influence among students

Source: IDP research, October 2012

Why Rank? Globalisation of research

40 per cent of research papers published by world top 200 universities are internationally co-authored

7 million researchers worldwide are working with an annual R&D spend of $1,000 billion

Source/Royal Society

A powerful geopolitical indicator.

Rankings "help by encouraging… more informed policy making... they can stimulate national debate and focused analysis... which in turn may lead to positive policy changes at system level.”

European Universities Association, April 2013

“Rankings… encourage institutions to move beyond their internal conversations to participate in broader national and international discussions…“Rankings… foster collaboration, such as research partnerships, student and faculty exchange programmes”

US Institute for Higher Education Policy, May 2009

“In God we trust, all others bring data”

W. Edwards Deming

Times Higher Education’s responsibility

“The responsibility weighs heavily on our shoulders. We are

very much aware that national policies and multi-million

pound decision are influenced by the rankings… We feel we

have a duty to improve how we compile the rankings…

“We believe that universities deserve a rigorous, robust and

transparent set of rankings – a serious tool for the sector,

not just an annual curiosity.”

Source: Ann Mroz, editor Times Higher Education magazine, November 2009

A new ranking system for a new era.

Times Higher Education editorial board’s three majo r criticisms:

Staff student ratio a weak proxy

Too dependent on subjective opinion

Citations data not normalised.

Citations -- the importance of subject normalisation

Field Papers Citation Citation Impact

Chemistry 618,568 3,335,763 5.39

Engineering 438,538 958,640 2.19

Mathematics 140,219 211,268 1.51

Molecular Biology & Genetics 145,939 1,597,660 10.95

Physics 494,451 2,154,290 4.36

What makes a great university?

The four key pillars:

Research

TeachingKnowledge

TransferGlobal outlook

World University Rankings: Methodology

Methodology used since 2011-12 World University Rankings .

Teaching – the learning environment (30 %)

Reputation survey – Teaching (15 %)

Staff-to-Student Ratio (4.5 %)

PhDs awarded/Undergraduate degrees awarded (2.25 %)

PhDs awarded/Academic staff (6 %)

Institutional income/Academic staff (2.25 %)

International Outlook – staff, students and research (7.5 %)

International students/total students (2.5 %)

International academic staff/total academic staff (2.5 %)

Scholarly papers with at least one international author/Total scholarly papers (2.5 %)

Industry income – innovation (2.5%)

Research income from industry/Academic Staff (2.5 %)

Research – volume, income and reputation (30%)

Reputation survey – research (18%)

Research income (PPP)/Academic staff (6%)

Scholarly papers/Academic staff and research staff (6%)

Citations – research influence (30 %)

Citation impact (normalised average citations per paper) (30%)

“We broadly accept the criteria used by THE, which is why our policies are focused on the same areas.”David Willetts, UK minister for universities

“The data collected for the THEWUR provide a useful set of indicators which enable us to analyse the dynamics of higher education development and to comparatively relate excellence to policies”Dirk Van Damme, Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress Division (IMEP) at the OECD

“The THE rankings are the principal yardstick we should look to”Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, India.

“Times Higher Education rankings – now increasingly seen as the gold standard.”Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, Vice Chancellor, Robert Gordon University

The results 2013-14

The results 2013-14

The results 2013-14: top by region

14 ETH Zurich ( down from 12)

23 University of Tokyo ( up from 27)

34 University of Melbourne ( down from 28)

126 University of Cape Town ( down from 113)

191 Hebrew Uni of Jerusalem ( down from 137)

226-250 University of Sao Paulo ( down from 158)

Distribution of the world top 200 universities 2013-14

World map gridded cartogram transformation: Gross Domestic Product

A fresh view of the world: adjusted for national wealth

World map gridded cartogram transformation: Population

A fresh view of the world: adjusted for population size

THE Asia University Rankings

THE Asia University Rankings

Published 19 June 2014

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/

Times Higher Education 100 Under 50

THE 100 Under 50

Published 1 May 2014.

www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/

Times Higher Education 100 Under 50

“I’m keen on democracy in all its forms and the 100 Under 50 concept strikes me as a democratic one. It says that what matters about a university are the quality and the ambition of its research and graduate employability, not how much ivy is clinging to its walls.”

Sir Patrick Stewart , chancellor, University of Huddersfield

Times Higher Education BRICS & Emerging Economies

“In many ways – and perhaps counter-intuitively – the importance of rankings in the developing world far outweighs their value to universities in more advanced economies.Policy-makers across Asia often place far more store in universities, and the crucial role they can play in driving national growth and competitiveness, than their counterparts in the developed world.Indeed, rankings are a yardstick to measure that progress, and their simplicity helps focus government attention on education policy, particularly in countries where there are inadequate quality assessment measures for academic standards.”

Halima Begum, British Council’s director, education, East Asia, based in Jakarta

“There is growing demand for global league tables that reflect regional and economic contexts, and an increasing range of institutions want to benchmark themselves against the world’s best.”

Phil Baty, editor Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa…

Czech Republic, Hungary, Malaysia, Mexico, Poland, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Chile, Colombia, Egypt, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines and the United Arab Emirates.

Coming soon…

The Times Higher EducationMENA University Rankings?

The future:

THE Impact and Innovation Rankings?

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