JORDANIAN ACADEMIC STAFF AND ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATORS’ PERCEPTIONS OF THE ROLE AND LIMITATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

For education policymakers worldwide, the international university rankings have taken lead as indicators of institutional performance that are bolstered by pretense objectivity in science. These supported first world and developing-nations institutions’ hegemonic model higher on a global basis. This study aimed to identify Jordanian Academic Staff Administrators’ perceptions role limitations rankings. this purpose, researchers designed an online questionnaire consisted three sections: demographic, experience, role, The was distributed academics administrative staff involved universities’ results showed QS ranking is most popular, followed Times, ARWU, US News. University helped universities education, administration, student services. Additionally, found institutions form academic partnerships among with similar interests, improve competition universities, boost scientific research culture, construct programs. At level, promote transparent facilitate decision-making quality assurance procedures.