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The international rankings in the present form only cover a very small percentage of the world’s 17000 universities. Most international rankings focus predominantly on indicators related to the research function of the universities. The importance of links to external stakeholders arid environment are largely ignored. • Rankings have certainly helped to faster greater accountability and increased pressure to improve management practices. • There is a danger that the time invested by universities in collecting and using data to improve their performance in the rankings may detract from efforts to progress in other areas, such as teaching and learning or community. • The importance of this lecture is to inform universities about the methodologies behind the most popular global rankings and about their potential impact. Various ways of rankings can be grouped according to their purpose, parameters measured, the representation of the results or intended impact: (1): Academic rankings with the main purpose of producing university league tables: - ARWU, Academic Ranking of World University, ARWU, Shanghais Ranking. - World University Ranking, Times higher education, - World-Best University, US news, - Global University Ranking Reiter. • : Ranking concentrating on research performance only (with or without league tables). - Leiden Ranking Leiden University. - Performance Ranking of scientific papers for world Univ. (Taiwan higher education Council). - Assessment of Univ-Based Research European Commission. • Multi Rankings - University Rankings and classification using a number of indicators without the intention of producing league tables. • Web Rankings: Webometric Ranking of World Universities. • Bench marking based on learning outcomes.
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