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Title: Impact of University Ranking on Students


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Impact of University Ranking on Students
  • Syed Ali Khayam

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What is this talk about?
  • This talk is based on the following report
    published recently on the NUST website
  • Marguerite Clarke, University rankings and
    their impact on students,
  • In this report, the author explains her
    perspective on how university rankings affect
  • students choice of school
  • employment options after graduation, and
  • admission policies

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What is this talk about?
  • Many different university rankings exist in the
    world today
  • Most prominent US rankings are
  • US News World Report College and University
    Ranking
  • Top American Research Universities by University
    of Florida
  • Washington Monthly College rankings
  • Global rankings include
  • Times Higher Education Ranking
  • Academic Ranking of World Universities
  • Newsweek Top 100 Global Universities
  • Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
  • Most of these rankings use some well-known
    evaluation metrics to quantify the performance of
    postgraduate programs

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Do students care about university rankings?
  • This study concludes that most students do not
    consider rankings to be important when choosing
    undergraduate and graduate schools
  • Out of the 221,897 undergraduate students who
    responded to one survey, 11 saw university
    rankings as a very important factor in their
    choice of school while 60 found them not at all
    important
  • I believe that this observation is largely
    dependent on the demographics of the survey
    participants
  • For instance, good students in Pakistan are very
    rank-conscious when picking graduate schools

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Does university ranking affect employability?
  • The study concludes that university rank might
    have an impact on salary, especially for business
    schools
  • But this affect is only temporary
  • I believe that salary alone is not sufficient to
    gauge employability
  • We need to take into consideration whether the
    graduates are getting the jobs of their choice or
    not

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Impact of university ranking on student access
  • To improve university ranking, schools offer
    early-decision programs and large amounts of
    scholarships, and invest heavily in
    infrastructure such as sports facilities and
    upmarket dorms
  • This has a negative impact on access for
    low-income students and other underrepresented
    groups as these students are less likely to apply
    through early-decision programs or to earn top
    scores on standardized tests
  • I am not really sure what this point means

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Impact of global university rankings
  • Global rankings are providing students low-cost
    alternatives for quality education
  • There are reservations that some countries see
    rankings and stratification as the means to
    create world class universities and thus meet
    the challenges of increasing global competition
  • I am again not really sure why this is a bad idea

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Conclusion
  • Due to limited time, I could not read and analyze
    alternative perspectives on this subject
  • However, I found another, very useful article
    from the same author
  • Clarke, M. (2002). Quantifying quality What can
    the U.S. News and World Report rankings tell us
    about the quality of higher education? Education
    Policy Analysis Archives, 10(16).
    http//epaa.asu.edu/epaa/v10n16/
  • This article critically analyzes the university
    ranking system of US News and highlights many
    important issues and pitfalls

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