{"id":233900,"date":"2023-03-23T20:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=233900"},"modified":"2023-03-23T20:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-03-23T15:07:24","slug":"why-univ-rankings-are-in-trouble-from-india-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/why-univ-rankings-are-in-trouble-from-india-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Univ Rankings Are In Trouble From India To US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/strong>This post is created based on the article \u201cWhy Univ Rankings Are in Trouble from India To US<\/strong>\u201d, published in Times of India<\/strong> on 23rd<\/sup>March 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus Topic<\/strong>: GS Paper 2 – Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education<\/p>\n

News: <\/strong>Many foreign universities recently rejected the US News & World Report annual rankings. Many top universities were included among them, for example the top ranked Harvard Medical School, law schools of UC Berkeley and Yale.<\/p>\n

Their justification was that these rankings were harmful to attracting prospective students.<\/p>\n

Similarly, in 1995, Reed College refused to participate in the US News & World Report annual survey. The reason was a WSJ report of1994 about institutions manipulating data to move up in the rankings in various popular college guides.<\/p>\n

However, the executive chair of US News & World Report, said that the mentioned elite schools don\u2019t want to be held accountable by an independent third party.<\/p>\n

Recently India\u2019s National Assessment and Accreditation Council\u2019s processes have come in for a lot of criticism and several articles have red-flagged its credibility.<\/p>\n

What are the issues with the measurement of performance of Universities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are issues with both qualitative and quantitative measurements of universities. A qualitative approach is time-consuming and cannot be verified. Moreover, it islabor-intensive, and not statistically representative. Whereas the qualitative measurement relies on numbers and can be manipulated by institutes.<\/p>\n

Another issue is whether a university should be programme accredited or institution accredited. programme accreditation can be enormously time-consuming for our large education system, whereas university accreditation can hide the inconsistencies within departments.<\/p>\n

How do the ranking agencies operate presently?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

There are many ranking agencies operating presently, for example, THE World University Rankings (THE-WUR), QS Asian University Rankings, Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings, etc.<\/p>\n

THE-WUR<\/strong> measures the university performance based on 13 indicators, across teaching (30%), research (30%), research citation (30%) international outlook (7. 5%) and knowledge transfer\/industry income (2. 5%).<\/p>\n

QS <\/strong>measures based on academic reputation (40%), employer reputation (10%), faculty student ratio (20%), citation per faculty (20%) and international faculty and student ratio (5% each).<\/p>\n

NAAC <\/strong>measure is based on 15% for curricular aspects, 20% for teaching learning and evaluation, 25% for research, innovation and extension and 10% each for 4 other aspects.<\/p>\n

NIRF <\/strong>ranking is based on six parameters such as research and professional practice, graduation outcomes, outreach and inclusivity.<\/p>\n

Why is there so much difference in methods of ranking universities?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Education is multi-faceted. There is a large diversity in the Indian education system.<\/p>\n

Different type of institutions like pvt or public, tech or social science, language basedetc, operate under very different conditions. They cannot be grouped under the same parameters for a quality check.<\/p>\n

Therefore, ranking and accreditation processes must be scraped and quality assurance must be adopted as the default. Individual Universities must be held accountable for the performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: This post is created based on the article \u201cWhy Univ Rankings Are in Trouble from India To US\u201d, published in Times of India on 23rdMarch 2023. Syllabus Topic: GS Paper 2 – Issues relating to development and management of Social Sector\/Services relating to Education News: Many foreign universities recently rejected the US News &… Continue reading Why Univ Rankings Are In Trouble From India To US<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10496],"class_list":["post-233900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704713459},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}