About me Phil Baty Rankings Editor Twitter: @Phil_Baty Email: Phil.Baty@tsleducation.com www.aiec.idp.com 1
Visit: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk TSL Education www.tsleducation.com www.aiec.idp.com 2
Growing influence among students Source: IDP research, October 2012 www.aiec.idp.com 3
Why Rank? Globalisation of research 40 per cent of research papers published by world top 200 universities are internationally co-authored 7 million researchers worldwide are working with an annual R&D spend of $1,000 billion Source/Royal Society A powerful geopolitical indicator. Rankings "help by encouraging more informed policy making... they can stimulate national debate and focused analysis... which in turn may lead to positive policy changes at system level. European Universities Association, April 2013 Rankings encourage institutions to move beyond their internal conversations to participate in broader national and international discussions Rankings foster collaboration, such as research partnerships, student and faculty exchange programmes US Institute for Higher Education Policy, May 2009 www.aiec.idp.com 4
In God we trust, all others bring data W. Edwards Deming Times Higher Education s responsibility Source: Ann Mroz, editor Times Higher Education magazine, November 2009 www.aiec.idp.com 5
A new ranking system for a new era. Times Higher Education editorial board s three major criticisms: Citations data not normalised. Staff student ratio a weak proxy Too dependent on subjective opinion www.aiec.idp.com 6
What makes a great university? The four key pillars: Teaching Knowledge Transfer Global outlook Research www.aiec.idp.com 7
World University Rankings: Methodology Methodology used since 2011-12 World University Rankings. Teaching the learning environment (30 %) Reputation survey Teaching (15 %) Staff-to-Student Ratio (4.5 %) PhDs awarded/undergraduate degrees awarded (2.25 %) PhDs awarded/academic staff (6 %) Institutional income/academic staff (2.25 %) www.aiec.idp.com 8
International Outlook staff, students and research (7.5 %) International students/total students (2.5 %) International academic staff/total academic staff (2.5 %) Scholarly papers with at least one international author/total scholarly papers (2.5 %) Industry income innovation (2.5%) Research income from industry/academic Staff (2.5 %) www.aiec.idp.com 9
Research volume, income and reputation (30%) Reputation survey research (18%) Research income (PPP)/Academic staff (6%) Scholarly papers/academic staff and research staff (6%) Citations research influence (30 %) Citation impact (normalised average citations per paper) (30%) www.aiec.idp.com 10
We broadly accept the criteria used by THE, which is why our policies are focused on the same areas. David Willetts, UK minister for universities The data collected for the THEWUR provide a useful set of indicators which enable us to analyse the dynamics of higher education development and to comparatively relate excellence to policies Dirk Van Damme, Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress Division (IMEP) at the OECD The THE rankings are the principal yardstick we should look to Shashi Tharoor, Minister of State for Human Resource Development, India. Times Higher Education rankings now increasingly seen as the gold standard. Ferdinand Von Prondzynski, Vice Chancellor, Robert Gordon University The results 2013-14: top by region 14 ETH Zurich (down from 12) 23 University of Tokyo (up from 27) 34 University of Melbourne (down from 28) 126 University of Cape Town (down from 113) 191 Hebrew Uni of Jerusalem (down from 137) 226-250 University of Sao Paulo (down from 158) www.aiec.idp.com 11
The results 2013-14: Australia 34 University of Melbourne (down from 28) 48 Australian National University (down from 37) 63 University of Queensland (up from 65) 72 University of Sydney (down from 62) 91 Monash University (up from 99) 114 University of New South Wales (down from 85) 168 University of Western Australia (up from 190) 201-225 University of Adelaide (down from 176) www.aiec.idp.com 12
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Bold efforts by the Singapore government at developing the country as a global knowledge an innovation hub have led to an exciting and thriving higher education and research landscape facilitated by the critical mass of top-rated individuals and institutions in broad clusters of disciplines, state-of-the-art infrastructure and connectivity, deep and extensive partnerships between overseas and local institutions and the pervasive use of the English language. Tan Chorh Chuan, president NUS www.aiec.idp.com 14
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www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings Rising stars www.aiec.idp.com 16
Rising stars Rising stars www.aiec.idp.com 17
THE World University Rankings on the iphone The world s superstars www.aiec.idp.com 18
Asia-Pacific stars Distribution of the world top 200 universities 2013-14 www.aiec.idp.com 19
A fresh view of the world: adjusted for national wealth World map gridded cartogram transformation: Gross Domestic Product A fresh view of the world: adjusted for population size World map gridded cartogram transformation: Population www.aiec.idp.com 20
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