Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Data Science Ranking Universities

In "Data science can fix ranking briar patch" (The Australian, 14 March 2018), Tim Dodd suggests that data science could be used to rank universities, but this has been done for years with the "Ranking Web of Universities".  Their methodology emphasizes the quality and quantity of information universities provide online (which I think is a good thing). This produces slightly different rankings for Australian universities, to measures emphasizing research output behind pay-walls.

For its top ten Australian institutions the QS World University Rankings has: ANU, Melbourne, UNSW, Queensland, Sydney, Monash, UWA, Adelaide, UTS and Newcastle. On the Ranking Web of Universities, ANU slips from first to fifth place, while UTS and Newcastle displace Curtin, and Macquarie in the bottom two places.

Australian Web rankingWorld Web Ranksort descendingUniversityQS Australian Rank Presence Rank*Impact Rank*Openness Rank*Excellence Rank*
1
55
University of Melbourne2
179
108
53
26
2
62
University of New South Wales3
166
87
85
52
3
63
University of Queensland4
152
114
72
37
4
74
University of Sydney5
626
172
94
30
5
75
Australian National University1
122
72
75
131
6
93
Monash University6
571
206
97
57
7
129
University of Adelaide8
531
143
128
149
8
136
University of Western Australia7
581
189
171
115
9
235
Curtin University of Technology15
1069
227
245
276
10
271
Macquarie University12
553
266
196
341

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