Should you believe in the Shanghai ranking? |
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Authors: | Jean-Charles Billaut Denis Bouyssou Philippe Vincke |
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Affiliation: | 1.Laboratoire d’Informatique,Université Fran?ois Rabelais Tours,Tours,France;2.CNRS–LAMSADE, UMR 7024,Université Paris Dauphine,Paris Cedex 16,France;3.Université Libre de Bruxelles,Bruxelles,Belgium |
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Abstract: | This paper proposes a critical analysis of the “Academic Ranking of World Universities”, published every year by the Institute
of Higher Education of the Jiao Tong University in Shanghai and more commonly known as the Shanghai ranking. After having recalled how the ranking is built, we first discuss the relevance of the criteria and then analyze the proposed
aggregation method. Our analysis uses tools and concepts from Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). Our main conclusions
are that the criteria that are used are not relevant, that the aggregation methodology is plagued by a number of major problems
and that the whole exercise suffers from an insufficient attention paid to fundamental structuring issues. Hence, our view
is that the Shanghai ranking, in spite of the media coverage it receives, does not qualify as a useful and pertinent tool
to discuss the “quality” of academic institutions, let alone to guide the choice of students and family or to promote reforms
of higher education systems. We outline the type of work that should be undertaken to offer sound alternatives to the Shanghai
ranking. |
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