What Do World University Rankings Actually Mean?
Friday, October 3, 2014 - 08:20
in Mathematics & Economics
In third place, Oxford University is the top UK institution in the World University Rankings 2014-15. Image: Andrew Matthews/PA ArchiveBy Steven C. Ward, Western Connecticut State UniversityFrom the “best beaches” to the “best slice of pizza” to the best hospital to have cardiac surgery in, we are inundated with a seemingly never-ending series of reports ranking everything that can be ranked and even things that probably shouldn’t be. read more