The 2010 -2011 World University Rankings, published today by the
Times Higher Education magazine uses a new methodology that places less
importance on reputation and heritage than in previous years, giving
more weight to measures of excellence in all three core elements of a
university’s mission - research, teaching and knowledge transfer. In
all, it includes 13 separate performance indicators, across five
categories.
The result makes sobering reading for Europe’s universities as a whole, which fare less well in this ranking than in the QS World Universities Ranking published last week and the Shanghai ranking that appeared in August.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Science|Business European universities demoted in new ranking system
Author: Nuala Moran
