Rise In University Rankings

Amirani · 10-09-2013 10:21AM #1

http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/tcd-and-nuig-rise-in-world-university-rankings-1.1521621

TCD today recorded it's first rise in the QS World University Rankings for the first time since 2009. Currently sitting at 61st in the World (up from 67 last year).

UCD down 8 to 139. UCC down 20 to 210, DCU down 25 places to 349. NUIG, with the only other rise, up 3 to 284.

This is some good news I suppose. I would be quite sceptical of how good a reflection of a University that these rankings give. Still, I have found that some employers to take them quite seriously.

sganyfx · 10-09-2013 05:06PM

Beating Warwick is pretty impressive O_O So we are pretty much equivalent to a Golden Triangle UK university, not bad

hfallada · 10-09-2013 06:24PM

Its a pretty good ranking considering a majority of the top 100 universities all have expensive fees ( as in £9,000 or $17,000 dollars a year), a ton of borrowings plus a ton of wealthy donors.

If you are working abroad and your potential employer as never heard of TCD, but sees its one of the top 60 universities in the world. I imagine they will be pretty impressed

EuropeanSon · 11-09-2013 10:25AM

sganyfx wrote: »

Beating Warwick is pretty impressive O_O So we are pretty much equivalent to a Golden Triangle UK university, not bad

Not quite. There are lots of UK Unis ahead of us. Oxbridge, UCL, ICL, KCL, Edinburgh are all in the top 20, and then Bristol is 30th, Manchester 33rd, Glasgow 51st. We are one spot ahead of Birmingham.

I don't think there's a lot of merit in looking at rankings, really. Look at Tokyo and UCLA. Two of the best universities in the world, stuck in 32nd and 40th respectively just because most of their faculty aren't "international".

(breakdown of the criteria is here)

Going by the academic reputation criterion, we are 102nd, which isn't great.

marieholmfan · 11-09-2013 10:28AM

They look like easy rankings to game.
1 Employ large numbers of research staff in non high cost fields at very low pay but with no teaching responsibilities. In my opinion many mathematicians and theoretical physicists would agree to that.
2 Let them research whatever they want
3 Ensure that they are non Irish

Rise In University Rankings

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