How do ranking systems for universities rate against each?
Various ways to rate a college. There’s been lots of moaning on this blog about the utility of the ranking systems for universities (see tag cloud at right for examples). One issue of particular interest is the extent to which the ranking systems all reliably measure the same underlying construct – that of ‘university quality’. Without the required statistical intercorrelational and other analyses, it is difficult to know what to make of the differences between the differing systems. Here’s a great post from Flowing Data that illustrates the problem well (sourcepost at the Chronicle of Higher Education). The differing systems just don’t overlap very well – which suggests they are not all measuring the same thing – no matter what anybody says! Various ways to rate a college Sep 8, 2010 to Network Visualization, Statistics | Post on Twitter There are a bunch of college ratings out there to help students decide what college to apply to (and give something for alumni to gloat about). The t
