CWUR 2015

[Ricky the Bull]

The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) has USF #190 in their 2015 rankings.

 

 

CWUR uses eight objective and robust indicators to rank the world's top 1000 universities:

 

1) Quality of Education, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals relative to the university's size [25%]
2) Alumni Employment, measured by the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions at the world's top companies relative to the university's size [25%]
3) Quality of Faculty, measured by the number of academics who have won major international awards, prizes, and medals [25%]
4) Publications, measured by the number of research papers appearing in reputable journals [5%]
5) Influence, measured by the number of research papers appearing in highly-influential journals [5%]
6) Citations, measured by the number of highly-cited research papers [5%]
7) Broad Impact, measured by the university's h-index [5%]
8) Patents, measured by the number of international patent filings [5%]

 

Here are where we and some other Florida schools rank:

 

60.    University of Florida

137.  University of Miami

190.  University of South Florida

252.  Florida State University

394.  University of Central Florida

604.  Florida International University

823.  Florida Institute of Technology

856.  Florida Atlantic University

 

Those ranked from the American:

 

142.  Southern Methodist University

157.  University of Cincinnati

184.  University of Houston

190.  University of South Florida

218.  University of Connecticut

272.  Tulane University

381.  Temple University

394.  University of Central Florida

746.  University of Memphis

762.  East Carolina University

 

 

http://cwur.org/2015/

Edited September 9, 2015 by Ricky the Bull

[Mama_Bull]

Nice.

 

I saw they released their rankings, but didn't check our standing with them, at the same time I recently started a thread here on the Times World University Rankings 2014-2015 . They only list the top 400 universities.

 

Here are those again for comparison:

 

World University Rankings 2014-15

 

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 list the best global universities and are the only international university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

 

USF T251-275

 

Other conference schools ranked:

 

UCincy 276-300

 

UConn 301-350

 

UHouston 301-350

 

Tulane 301-350

 

Other Florida schools ranked:

 

UF #126

UMiami #169

FIT #200

FSU and UCF not ranked

[WWMJD]

Those metrics are... interesting. 25% weight to "the number of a university's alumni who have held CEO positions at the world's top companies"? Seems like a myopic view of employment prospects. The statistical biases are pretty obvious in some of the other categories as well.

[Gismo]

First ranking I've seen with FSU in the right place, down below us. I'd even say UCF is probably a better school than FSU. I just don't have a great impression of that school, and that's about 50% the people who attended from my high school and 50% what I've heard about some of their programs.