Examining University Ranking Metrics
Izzat Mahmoud Alsmadi, ZW Taylor · 2018
Universities pay serious attention to a wide variety of rankings in comparison with other national or international universities. Such ranking is used for peer comparisons, funds' acquisition and distribution, hiring, recruiting, and more. Several organizations or websites evaluate and publish those rankings yearly. In this paper, we evaluated those ranking models. We showed influence of University size, and web presence as two major contributing factors. We noticed while most ranking metrics claim that such two factors have no significant impact on their overall ranking methods, we showed in this paper that such dependency is significant. We also proposed methods to normalize or equalize such influences and showed that such methods are feasible and hence should be adopted.