Sabine Righetti Folha de S.Paulo/ Brazil sabine.righetti@grupofolha.br

1. Sabine Righetti Folha de S.Paulo/ Brazil sabine.righetti@grupofolha.com.br

2. The biggest Brazilian daily newspaper • 330 thousand copies/day • http://www.folha.uol.com.br/

3. More than 200 million people

4. 26% of the Brazilians are still living in slums!

5. Brazilian higher education • 23 hundred tertiary institutions • 191 universities • 101 public universities (tuition free) • 14% of the Brazilians on university age (18-24) are studying

6. RUF - Brazilian Universities Ranking Scientific production • We evaluate only the national universties (191) Education quality Market assessment Innovation

7. Scientific production ● Papers with Brazilians authors (10 points) ● Citations received in 2010 (10 points) ● Citations per faculty (8 points) ● Papers per professor (8 points) ● Fundraising for research (8 points) ● Percentage of faculty with doctoral degree (5 points) ● Citations per paper in 2010 (2 points) ● Percentage of articles with international collaboration (2 points) ● Articles on "SciElo” – Brazilian database (2 points) = points

8. Education quality • Evaluation of teaching at universities based on telephone interviews conducted with 597 high scientifically productive researches around the country • They listed the “top ten” Brazilian universities on their area of expertise excluding their own university = points points

9. Market assessment • To assess the perception of the labor market about the Brazilian • universities, 1.212 professionals were heard. • ● They were responsible for Human Resources on companies that recently hired professionals that got a degree from one of the twenty courses that undergraduate the most in Brazil (such as Business, Law and Journalism). = points

10. Innovation • RUF assessed the technological innovation of universities measuring the amount of patent filings on the last ten years at INPI (Brazil’s National Institute of Industrial Property) database • We granted points to Brazilian universities that have made at least one patent application recently (141 from 191 universities evaluated) = points

11. The ranking!

12. Results • The quality of higher education in Brazil is concentrated in the Southeast and on public institutions • The best universities of the country are public; the first private institution is “PUC-Rio”, ranked 13th • All universities that are at the top in each one of the five regions of the country (North, Northeast, Midwest, Southeast and South) are also public • USP, ranked first in RUF, is the only Brazilian university among the first 200th on the global ranking "THE"

13. Repercussion • Positive feedback from readers of the newspaper, students, academics and also the Brazilian government itself • RUF filled an important gap in the Brazilian higher education scenario and also brought up a rich debate about higher education quality in Brazil

14. Changes to the second edition • We are going to improve the “quality education” indicator • The number of evaluated courses will raise from 20 to 30 (the courses that most graduate in Brazil) • We will include a new indicator: internacionalization. This is considerer the number of faculty and students from abroad • We still don’t know how to reach the formal students from the universities!

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