nep-pke 2007-08-14 papers

on Post Keynesian Economics

Issue of 2007‒08‒14
one paper chosen by
Karl Petrick
University of the West Indies

Ranking universities : how to take better account of diversity By Henry, TULKENS

Ranking universities : how to take better account of diversity

By:	Henry, TULKENS (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Department of Economics)
Abstract:	In order to rank universities, rather than aggregating the indicators used by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) - using weightings which, though reasonable, are at the same time arbitrary and inflexible - one can compare universities in termes of dominance and hence deduce various partial or complete rankings. The resultant dominance ranking method is presented in this note. Data are recalled in Appendix 1. Appendix provides full details of the dominance analysis for each university. From this analysis two listings are derived : (i) a front runners list consisting of 34 Ônon-dominatedÕ universities (Table 4) and (ii) a (new) ranking of the 200 universities surveyed by the THES, based on their respective Ôactive-passive dominanceÕ scores (Table 5). Concluding remarks bear on limits of the data and of the exercise.
Date:	2007–08–02
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ctl:louvec:2007023&r=pke

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