University rankings miss hard-to-measure factors such as the quality of teaching and the campus atmosphere.
In the 2010-2011 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, Oxford and Cambridge rank similarly to Harvard and Princeton.
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Not one Italian institution is in the top 100 of the 2008 Times Higher Education world university rankings.
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Oxford came top for English language and literature, philosophy, modern languages and geography in the QS World University Rankings by subject.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators, which it says makes it the only world rankings to examine all the core missions of the modern global university - research, teaching, knowledge transfer and international activity.
The China side of my brain was intrigued by a different dimension of the education issue when I picked up the Indian Express on September 10 and read a large article expressing concern over the just-released QS World University Rankings.
The California Institute of Technology, a private institution with just 2, 200 students, takes the number one slot again this year on the ninth annual list of World University Rankings, put out by Times Higher Education, a London magazine that tracks the higher education market.
Prof Alan Smithers, of Buckingham University, says England's rankings vary for various reasons.
The UUP's David McClarty supported the amendment and commended both Queen's University and the University of Ulster on moving up the rankings ladder.
Christopher Murray, professor of global health at the University of Washington who has worked on several rankings of national health-care systems, advocates a sliding scale for medals three points for gold, two for silver, one for bronze.
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Banzhaf III, a law professor at George Washington University Law School, who has studied law-school rankings.
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Bristol University remained in the top 100, despite slipping down the rankings since 2011.
Rankings have shown the complexity and fragmentation of the university system and research in France.
But their skills are in demand in Latin America, where a degree from a European university is seen as prestigious (although Spanish universities fare poorly in international rankings).
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The index was founded at the University of Michigan and gets support from ForeSee for its e-commerce and e-business rankings.
Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, for example, tops the latest full-time MBA rankings of BusinessWeek and the EIU, and heads the FT's executive education open programs.
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton school, which has topped the new Financial Times's Global MBA rankings for another year, has just highlighted a subject that companies need to be increasingly aware of: religion in the workplace.
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