Tuesday, December 14, 2010

World University Rankings ranked figure more secret rules

【-Feature 】 Forbes Publisher American University Rankings ranked Williams College

Recently, the United States financial magazine Forbes released the 2010 best college rankings, which was unexpected is the line in the header bits do not Harvard, Yale and Princeton, is not the top of West point last year, but the Massachusetts a small private college of liberal arts school Williams. The school only about 2000 students, teacher-student ratio is 1 to 7, for the investigation of an school students bring unique learning experience.

Study abroad expert pointed out that the "Forbes" publish rankings from students of the University, and the United States judges for undergraduate students to read, so the ranking for going to the United States time undergraduate students is very valuable. Forbes ranking criteria include: student satisfaction, graduate school of achievement, student debt, during undergraduate graduation rate in four years, all the indicators are based on the students ' perspective, the evaluation of students in reading during the satisfaction and success after graduation. The introduction of the index for two important website: ratemyprofessor.com and payscale.com. Ratemyprofessor.com are students on University Professor, is a major United States college courses; payscale.com is a reference to the United States well-known research institutions, the regular remuneration on United States university graduates salary survey data provided, to select universities and professional students. In accordance with the above indicators, small private liberal arts colleges in the top rankings, and a large public University in later in the ranking. Such as the famous University of California at Berkeley (University of California, Berkeley; hereinafter referred to as UC-Berkeley) only in this ranking is no. 65. This shows, on the other hand, private liberal arts colleges or private universities, for reads and undergraduate students to experience better than public universities, because the number of general public universities are more than 2 million, undergraduate students the opportunity to compare on the course, students experience less is natural. But for graduate school, this gap is not obvious. Therefore, "Forbes" release of university rankings mainly evaluation University undergraduate experience, time undergraduate students on a great reference value.

Shanghai jiaoda release 2010 World University academic rankings

Jiaotong has been publishing a "World University academic ranking (Academic Ranking of World Universities)", the main evaluation of University academic standards. This ranking to academic as indicators (Nobel Prize, award, the natural fields "and" Science "magazine published dissertations, etc.), focusing on a university research strength, for postgraduate students have very high reference value. In this ranking, liberal arts colleges and universities of science and engineering relative rank high, due to the current lack of objective evaluation of the humanities.

# Individually listed from 1 to 100 of University, then divided into 101 and 150, 151-200, 201-300, 301-400 401-500, and five levels, and each level in the list of universities in its listed in alphabetical order.

According to the above criteria, the Harvard University continue to lead the World University. The Asia Pacific region, to rank the King in the University of Tokyo 20, followed by the Kyoto Univ. (24 bit) and the Australian National University (59). In addition to comprehensive ranking, the higher education on the National Chiao Tung University is a different discipline rankings. ]

The United States news and world report recognized the most influential

According to experts, the United States news and world report (US News & World Report) magazine every year to United States universities integrated scoring, ranking, classification and detailed complete, timely and accurate, updated rankings are based on the individual University of 16 indicators integration proceeds, including statistics SAT score, acceptance rate, graduation rates, alumni donations, peer reputation and this year's new high school careers advisers, etc, select the all-1472 4-year colleges and universities to conduct the evaluation.

Although the United States have many organizations will publish rankings, but the United States news and World Report ranked the University of the United States has been most affected by the United States schools and parents, and so is the United States ranking of the most influential. While domestic parents generally is used as a top ranking.

United Kingdom London University Rankings influence growing

The times higher-QS World University Rankings "is determined by the times higher education in the United Kingdom special issue of the magazine and the United Kingdom the times announced joint cooperation by 600 World University rankings. The ranking from 2004, published in the autumn of each year, the times higher education volunteering magazine and its Web site. From 2009 onwards, the company expanded with the QS United States news and world report, Canada Townsend Reuters Group cooperation, their influence is growing.

It's ranking basis including: 1. Nobel Prize medal and Phil equivalent number of Alumni; 2. the teacher quality, received the Nobel Prize medal and Phil teachers equivalent number; 3. interdisciplinary fields referenced many times the highest number of teachers; 4. the research results in the Nature of Science published papers equivalent number; 5. the Science Citation Index (SCIE) and the social sciences citation index (SSCI) contains dissertations 【 】

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