University Ranking: How do you think about it?
By masata
@masata (408)
Indonesia
January 28, 2009 12:11pm CST
Nowadays, it is popular to see in some of public media about the university ranking in the world. For example we can see the following website:
THES: www.topuniversities.com
Shanghai Jiaotong: http://www.arwu.org/
Webometrics: webometrics
I, personally, think that the webometrics is not very useful since the methodology is not quite relevant with the university performance in teaching and research. I believe for someone doing research like me prefer Shanghai Jiaotong ranking because the methodology used is based on research performance.
We observe that from the ranking in THES is quite bias towards English-based universities to dominate in the higher ranks. But does it reflect the reality? I can't believe that the university in Australia is doing much better than the university in Germany.
What do you think about this, Guys? How should we perceive this kind of ranking? Some persons still believe that someone from a "better" university has probably a better access to jobs, positions, etc.
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@oyenkai (4394)
• Philippines
20 Feb 09
I don't know how the rankings were made but I think a university here in the Philippines made it in with quite a good rank - of course, not as competitive as the universities from first world countries.
But seriously, people who came from better universities do have better opportunities. Not only because of the logo on their diploma but also because they received better training based on the standards expected by the industry :)
Thanks for the response on my discussion!
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@kykidd (6812)
• United States
28 Jan 09
Really I think it is all about money and politics. How can they say that one school is better than another? Or one teacher is better than another as far as that goes? I guess it is the grades that people come out of the class with, but that can easily be adjusted. Or maybe by the job one gets when he gets out of school.
I know one of my best teacher's that I ever had was in a little tech school, which is now a community college, in Eastern Kentucky. I don't know how the school was ranked, but he was ranked high. I think it is because he had such a personality and ability to work well and one on one with each of his students.
