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1 1 Academic Ranking of World Universities : Academic Ranking of World Universities : Purpose, Methods and Future Efforts Purpose, Methods and Future Efforts Presented By Dr. Ying CHENG Presented By Dr. Ying CHENG Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chi Graduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chi na na Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), France Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), France July 18, 2008 July 18, 2008

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Academic Ranking of World Universities :Academic Ranking of World Universities :Purpose, Methods and Future EffortsPurpose, Methods and Future Efforts

Presented By Dr. Ying CHENGPresented By Dr. Ying CHENGGraduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, ChiGraduate School of Education, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Chinana

Observatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), FranceObservatoire des Sciences et des Techniques (OST), France

July 18, 2008July 18, 2008

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OutlineOutline

PurposePurpose

MethodologMethodology,y, ResultsResults and Problemsand Problems

FutureFuture EffortsEfforts

Final RemarksFinal Remarks

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Purpose of ARWUPurpose of ARWUPurpose of ARWU

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Dream of Chinese for WCUDream of Chinese for WCU

World-class university (WCU) is a dream for generations of Chinese. It’s not only for pride, but also for the future of China.

Since 1990s, Chinese government has launched several initiatives for research universities. The best-known one is specially designed to build WCU (985 Project).

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Goals of Top Chinese UniversitiesGoals of Top Chinese Universities

Many top Chinese universities have setup their strategic goals as WCU.

Most of them have also set time tables for reaching the goal of WCU. For example:2016 for Peking University2020 for Tsinghua University

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Questions About WCUQuestions About WCU

What is WCU?

How many WCU should there be in the world?

What are the positions of top Chinese universities in the world?

How can Chinese universities improve themselves to reach the goal of WCU?

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Academic Ranking of World UniversitiesAcademic Ranking of World Universities(ARWU)(ARWU)

Our original purpose of doing the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) was to find out the position of Chinese universities in the world and the gap between them and WCU.

ARWU was put on the internet upon the encouragement of colleagues from all over the world.

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Features of ARWUFeatures of ARWU

ARWU uses a few internationally comparable, objective criteria and publicly accessible data that everyone could verify in some way.

It has been carried out by a ranking team (chaired by Professor Nian Cai LIU) in the Graduate School of Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University for their academic interests.

It has been done independently without any financial support from any sources outside.

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Methodology, Results and ProblemsMethodology, Results and ProblemsMethodology, Results and Problems

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Selection of UniversitiesSelection of Universities

Any university that has any Nobel Laureates, Fields Medals, Highly Cited Researchers, or papers published in Nature or Science.

Major universities of every country with significant amount of papers indexed by Citation Indexes of Thomson.

Number of universities scanned: >2000

Number of universities actually ranked: >1000

Number of ranked universities on our web: 500

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Ranking Criteria and WeightsRanking Criteria and WeightsCriteriaCriteria IndicatorIndicator CodeCode WeightWeight

Quality of Quality of EducationEducation

Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields MedalsPrizes and Fields Medals AlumniAlumni 10%10%

Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medalsand Fields Medals AwardAward 20%20%

Highly cited researchers in 21 broad Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categoriessubject categories HiCiHiCi 20%20%

Articles published in Nature and Science *Articles published in Nature and Science * N&SN&S 20%20%

Articles indexed in SCIE and SSCIArticles indexed in SCIE and SSCI SCISCI 20%20%

Per Capita Per Capita PerformancePerformance

Academic performance with respect to the Academic performance with respect to the size of an institutionsize of an institution SizeSize 10%10%

Research Research OutputOutput

Quality of Quality of FacultyFaculty

*: For institutions specialized in humanities and social sciences such as London School of Economics, N&S is not considered and the weight of N&S is relocated to other indicators

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Results of ARWUResults of ARWU

Published in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

Top 500 universities in the world

Top 100 universities in North and Latin America

Top 100 universities in Asia/Oceania

Top 100 universities in Europe

Statistics of top universities by region and country

Percentage distribution of top universities by country as compared with the share of global population and GDP

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Ranking by Broad Subject Fields(ARWU-FIELD)

Ranking by Broad Subject FieldsRanking by Broad Subject Fields(ARWU(ARWU--FIELD)FIELD)

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Definition of Broad Subject FieldsDefinition of Broad Subject Fields

Natural Sciences and Mathematics (SCI)

Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences (ENG)

Life and Agriculture Sciences (LIFE)

Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy (MED)

Social Sciences (SOC)

Arts and humanities are not ranked

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ARWUARWU--FIELD Indicators and WeightsFIELD Indicators and Weights

CodeCode SCISCI ENGENG LIFELIFE MEDMED SOCSOC

AlumniAlumni 10%10% 10%10% 10%10% 10%10%

AwardAward 15%15% 15%15% 15%15% 15%15%

HiCiHiCi 25%25% 25%25% 25%25% 25%25% 25%25%

PUBPUB 25%25% 25%25% 25%25% 25%25% 25%25%

TOPTOP 25%25% 25%25% 25%25% 25%25% 25%25%

FundFund 25%25%

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Results of ARWUResults of ARWU--FIELDFIELDPublished in 2007 and 2008

Top 100 universities in SCI

Top 100 universities in ENG

Top 100 universities in LIFE

Top 100 universities in MED

Top 100 universities in SOC

Statistics of top universities by region & country

List of top universities by number of top fields

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Problems and Limitations of ARWUProblems and Limitations of ARWU

Other functionsOther functions are not well taken into accountare not well taken into accountEducationEducation

Social serviceSocial service

Diversity of universitiesDiversity of universities may not be properly may not be properly reflectedreflected

Disciplinary characteristics, such as those do very well Disciplinary characteristics, such as those do very well in social science and humanities in social science and humanities

Size, big is beautiful?Size, big is beautiful?

Technical problemsTechnical problems

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Future EffortsFuture EffortsFuture Efforts

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Study the Methodological and Study the Methodological and Technical ProblemsTechnical Problems

Welcome idea and suggestions!

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Update ARWU AnnuallyUpdate ARWU Annually

In order to observe changes of Universities

In order to monitor countries’ performance

Serve as the basis of related academic studies and policy analysis

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Provide Different Rankings

Ranking by per capita performance

Based on reliable and international comparable data of academic staff

Ranking of universities specialized or strong in engineering, medicine, etc.

Based on the classification of world universities

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Establish Database of WCUEstablish Database of WCU

Basic profilesStudents, staff, programs, budget, …

Strategic indicatorsR&D expenditure, publications and citations, international academic awards, …

Data at college/department or discipline level

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Publish Annual or Biennial Report on World-Class Universities

Not limited to top 100 but may include 500 or Not limited to top 100 but may include 500 or more more research universitiesresearch universities

Provide internationally comparable indicators Provide internationally comparable indicators as many as possibleas many as possible

Perform Perform detailed data analysisdetailed data analysis rather than a rather than a composite rankingcomposite ranking

2009 ?2009 ?

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Final RemarksFinal RemarksFinal Remarks

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Controversy of RankingControversy of Ranking

Any ranking is controversial and no ranking is absolutely objective.

University rankings become popular in many countries. Whether we agree or not, ranking systems clearly are here to stay.

The key issue then becomes For rankers: how to improve ranking systems?For users: how to wisely use the rankings?

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Use of RankingUse of Ranking

Rankings are information tools for different purpose.

Rankings should be used with cautions. Their methodologies must be read carefully before reporting or using their results.

For any kind of decision-making, rankings should be used only as a starting point and comprehensive analysis are always necessary

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http://www.ARWU.org/

E-mail: [email protected]