May 25, 2007
College Rankings Catch On Overseas
When a small group of researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, in China, started comparing the world's top research universities, their aim was to help China develop world-class institutions of its own. But their annual "Academic Rankings of World Universities," first published in 2003, quickly became a popular international reference.
The ranking is based almost entirely on measures of strength in research. It looks at such indicators as the number of faculty members whose papers
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