National Ranking Systems
- CHE Hochschulranking, Zeit Online: Die Zeit, 2008.—Ranking of individual departments in German, Austrian and Swiss institutions, produced by CHE, DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) and Die Zeit magazine. (In German.) Further information is available in English from World Education Services, visit http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06aug/germany.htm.
- College and University Ranking Systems, Institute for Higher Education Policy (ed.), April 2007.—Three papers discussing rankings: U.S. News in the United States, a global survey of rankings, and the impact of rankings on student access and choice. Also includes information on the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions.
- Germany Announces Shortlist for Elite Universities, DW-World.de Deutsche Welle, January 21, 2006.—Report on German initiative to establish certain universities as ‘elite’ in order to improve the international standing of German higher education. Further information on this initiative is available from World Education Services, visit target="_blank">http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06aug/germany.htm.
- Gero Federkeil. 2002. Some Aspects of Ranking Methodology - the CHE-Ranking of German Universities. Higher Education in Europe, 27.4: 389-397.—Discussion of CHE-ranking methodology, as well as implications for quality assurance.
- Jens-Peter Gaul. 2005. Assessment, Control, and Autonomy: Macroscopic Perspectives. Higher Education in Europe, 30.2: 167-171.—Discussion of rankings and other measures of quality and their role in quality assurance in the German context.
- Nina Van Dyke. 2005. Twenty Years of University Report Cards. Higher Education in Europe, 30.2: 103-125.—Comparison of several international and country-specific rankings schemes.
- Observations on the Changing Dynamics of German Higher Education, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2008.—A discussion of a study on the impact of rankings on German higher education policy and institutional decision making.
- The B-School Net—Business-focused summary site with links to international MBA rankings and a variety of other German rankings.
- The German ‘Initiative for Excellence’ and the Issue of Ranking, International Higher Education, Summer 2006.—Overview of Germany's plan to organize a nationwide competition among existing universities for extra funding in order to identify about 10 universities that showed the potential to become ‘elite.’
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