Academic Freedom and World-Class Universities: A Virtuous Circle?

The Academic Ranking of World Universities

Shanghai Jiao Tong Universityhas published on the Internet an Academic Ranking of World Universities that has attracted worldwide attention. Institutions are ranked according to academic or research performance and ranking indicators include major international awards, highly cited researchers in important fields, articles published in selected top journals and/or indexed by major citation inde...

Mapping world-class universities on the web

A visual display of the most important universities in the world is the aim of this paper. It shows the topological characteristics and describes the web relationships among universities of different countries and continents. The first 1000 higher education institutions from the Ranking Web of World Universities were selected and their link relationships were obtained from Yahoo! Search. Networ...

World-Class Universities or World Class Systems?: Rankings and Higher Education Policy Choices

'The task given to them [the universities] was simple. They knew the measurement criteria of the THES rankings. All they had to do was to identify how their existing plans for improving the quality of their institutions matched those criteria'.

From Internal Branding to Cultural Transformation: A Virtuous Circle

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