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Reasons why world ranking of universities by QS/Times Higher Education rankings is flawed and do not show the real picture
How do you measure the academic institutions and their capabilities? What QS/Times Higher Education rankings show is not the real picture.
40% of their score is based on academic peer reviews. Big names keep scoring big in spite of excellent improvements by many lesser-known universities. 20% of their score is based on research citations. Again citation of research articles from big universities is common practice. It is the quality of research that matters in today’s context – not just the quantity of articles or citations. 5% of the score is based on the international students. No wonder US and UK institutions rank the highest. Who wants to go to China to study? But that does not mean University of Beijing is less in academic performance than Harvard?
5% of their score is based on international faculty. Does the number matter? Is it not a function of international currency rate? Can an Indian University ever score anything in that 5%? Who will go India to teach when Rs. 50 equals one US Dollar? Does that mean IIT is any less than Stoney Brook University in US?
The worst of their scoring system is the academic peer survey. Who will rank the US and UK universities below developing country universities? The big names continue to score big even though the US and UK engineering graduate schools survive on the performance of Indian and Chinese universities’ undergraduate performance.
The rest 10% is based on employer survey mainly in the US and UK. No wonder the US and UK universities are on top. Which employers did they survey? Was TCS or Wipro surveyed although they employ the largest number of engineers in the world?
The QS/Times Higher Education rankings should include realist scenarios and include changing world economics. For example Brazilian universities ranks much higher than reported. Russian universities are discriminated. Indian and Chinese research qualities are discounted.
In the modern context, education is just not studying hard in close supervision of good faculty. It is not just performing academic research and some publications. Real research is performed in the Indian, Brazilian, and Chinese Government research labs. That is why a country like India that was a beggar in 1960 can show the world its capabilities through Space Technology, Software Engineering, and more within 50 odd years.
QS/Times Higher Education rankings promotes status quo. It is unrealistic, biased for the US and UK English speaking universities and its flawed by the unrealistic scoring system.
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