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Rating and Ranking: Pros and Cons

Rating and Ranking: Pros and Cons. Dr. Mohsen Elmahdy Said Professor, Mechanical Design and Production Department Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University - Giza, Egypt Former Executive Director, Projects Management Unit (PMU) Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) saidme@eun.eg.

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Rating and Ranking: Pros and Cons

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  1. Rating and Ranking: Pros and Cons Dr. Mohsen Elmahdy Said Professor, Mechanical Design and Production Department Faculty of Engineering – Cairo University- Giza, Egypt Former Executive Director, Projects Management Unit (PMU) Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) saidme@eun.eg

  2. Agenda/Contents • Background • Rating and Ranking Systems (Global, Regional, National) • Pros and Cons of Rankings • Other Systems Related to Ranking (AHELO - OECD) • Concluding Remarks

  3. Background • Emergence of Ranking Systems in 1865 (European studies to assess quality of institutions & scholars in science and medicine) • Rankings continued in the 1920's (USA - faculty surveys) • University evaluation/ranking became popular in recent years (among general public, media and universities). • Present form introduced by US News and World Report over 20 years ago to publish transparent comparative data on institutions • Despite being controversial, Ranking became an unavoidable part of academic life, with increasing demand globally, regionally and nationally • Currently, roughly 50 major ranking systems are in use

  4. Who Conducts the Rankings Newspapers and magazines: THE-QS, Newsweek, US News & World Report etc. Academic institutions: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU), Wuhan University etc. Governmental Agencies: HEC of Pakistan etc. Accrediting bodies: Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT) Non-governmental organizations: QAA UK, OIC, Google, etc. Academics themselves

  5. Rankers identified University Ranking • Times Higher Education Ranking • QS World Universities Ranking • Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) • CHE Excellence Rankings • RatER Global University Ranking of World Universities • Webometrics Ranking of World Universities • 2010 World University Ranking • SIR World Report • Leiden Ranking • University Ranking by Academic Performance • The Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities • Professional Classification of Higher Education Institutions • International Student Barometer (ISB)

  6. Most Popular Universities Rankersaround the World • Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) • QS World University Ranking (QS) • The World University Ranking (Times Newspaper) Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) • ScimagoInstitutions Ranking (SIR) • University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) • Webometrics Ranking (WR)

  7. Rating and Ranking Systems (Global, Regional, National)

  8. Indicators of Rankings • Hundreds of different indicators • Categories of indicators: • Characteristics of the student body • financial inputs • staff inputs • student experiences • learning outcomes • financial outcomes • research metrics, and • reputation

  9. Keywords for Rankings • Institution (History, culture) • Academics (awards, researches) • Facilities (campus, laboratories) • Collections (libraries, museums) • Finances (key sources, research grants, scholarships, financial support) • Alumni (Notable, academics)

  10. Categories of Rankings • Rankings by Subject • Arts and Humanities Universities • Engineering and IT Universities • Life Sciences and Biomedicine Universities • Natural and Physical Sciences Universities • Social Sciences Universities

  11. Categories of Rankings • 2. Rankings by Location • American Universities • Asian and Middle Eastern Universities • African Universities • Australian and New Zealand Universities • British and European Universities • Canadian Universities

  12. Classification of Rankings • Based on: • Producing university league tables • Concentrating on research only • Multi-rankings: using indicators without producing league tables • Web rankings • Benchmarking based on learning outcomes • (AHELO – OECD)

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