National Ranking Systems
- Cassandra Guarino, Greg Ridgeway, Marc Chun, and Richard Buddin. 2005. Latent Variable Analysis: A New Approach to University Ranking. Higher Education in Europe, 30.2: 147-165.—Applies the statistical procedure of latent variable analysis to U.S. News (United States) and Times Good University guide (United Kingdom) rankings, in order to determine whether differently ranked institutions are statistically distinguishable.
- Research Assessment Exercise, Higher Education Funding Council for England, Scottish Funding Council, Higher Education Funding Council for Wales, Department for Employment and Learning-Northern Ireland, 2008.—Rating of United Kingdom institutions based on research activity, to be used by funding bodies to determine funding levels.
- The Good University Guide University League and Subject Tables, The Good University Guide, 2009.—Commercial ranking of United Kingdom universities. Web site allows students to rank institutions based on criteria that are important to them. Created by former staff of the Times Good University Guide.
- The Guardian University Guide—Commercial ranking of United Kingdom institutions based information published by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Additional information is available from World Education Services, visit http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06aug/unitedkingdom.htm.
- The Push Guide—Light-hearted commercial ranking of United Kingdom institutions based on academic factors, student demographics, and social factors, among others.
- The Sunday Times University Guide—Commercial ranking of United Kingdom institutions based on eight criteria including teaching satisfaction, research efficiency, completion rate, and post-graduate employment percentage. Additional information is available from World Education Services, visit http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06aug/unitedkingdom.htm.
- The Times Good University Guide—Commercial ranking of United Kingdom institutions on an overall ordinal scale, and also across 60 different subjects. Further information is available from World Education Services, visit http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06aug/unitedkingdom.htm.
- Who Really is On Top of the League?, The Daily Telegraph, June 25, 2003.—Commercial ranking of United Kingdom institutions based on the average rankings of five institutions and graduate recruiters. Sole criterion is teaching quality. Additional information is available from World Education Services, visit http://www.wes.org/ewenr/06aug/unitedkingdom.htm.
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