College and university rankings

College and university rankings are rankings of institutions in higher education ordered by various combinations of various factors. Rankings have most often been conducted by magazines, newspapers, websites, governments, or academics. In addition to ranking entire institutions, organizations perform rankings of specific programs, departments, and schools. Various rankings consider combinations of measures of wealth, research excellence and/or influence, selectivity, student options, eventual success, demographics, and other criteria. There are no known college rankings of student academic quality. Some rankings evaluate institutions within a single country, while others assess institutions worldwide. The subject has produced much debate about rankings' usefulness and accuracy. The expanding diversity in rating methodologies and accompanying criticisms of each indicate the lack of consensus in the field.

For rankings of United States colleges specifically, see Rankings of colleges in the United States. A few associations produce overall college rankings, including the accompanying.

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ordered by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and now kept up by the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, has given yearly worldwide rankings of colleges since 2003, making it the soonest of its kind. The positioning is supported by the Chinese government and its introductory object was to gauge the hole in the middle of Chinese and "world class" colleges. In the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities there are no Chinese colleges in the initial 100 of 500 places.[1] ARWU rankings have been refered to by The Economist magazine.[2] It has been commended for being "steady and straightforward" in view of an article.[3] The training pastors of France, Norway and Denmark flew out to China to talk about and discover approaches to enhance their rankings.[4] ARWU does not depend on overviews and school entries. Among other criteria, ARWU incorporates the quantity of articles distributed by Nature or Science and the quantity of Nobel Prize victors and Fields Medalists (mathematics).[5] Harvard has topped the positioning for years.[6] One of the essential reactions of ARWU's approach is that it is one-sided towards the regular sciences and English dialect science diaries over other subjects.[5] Moreover, the ARWU is known for "depending exclusively on examination pointers", and "the positioning is intensely weighted toward foundations whose workforce or graduated class have won Nobel Prizes": it doesn't quantify "the nature of instructing or the nature of humanities."

This Saudi Arabia-based counseling association has distributed yearly rankings of world colleges since 2012. Rankings depend on nature of instruction, graduated class business, nature of staff, number of productions, number of distributions in excellent diaries, references, logical effect and number of licenses

G-variable positions college and school web vicinity by tallying the quantity of connections just from other college sites, utilizing Google web search tool information. G-variable is a pointer of the prevalence or significance of every college's site from the joined viewpoints of different establishments. It cases to be a target peer audit of a college through its site—in interpersonal organization hypothesis phrasing, G-variable measures the centrality of every college's site in the system of college websites.