ABSTRACT

This study reviews three university ranking methodologies: Quacquarelli Sysmonds University Rankings, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities. It also aims to suggest two new methodologies, one for World University Ranking and one for Arab University Ranking, and to propose data collecting tools for the new indicators if any. An online survey which elicited quantitative data and two focus-group discussions which produced qualitative data were used. The results of the survey show that the importance of some indicators as ranked by the respondents was similar to those found in the three international ranking systems, while others were not. The focus-groups suggested new weights for the indicators, since ranking systems overlook the differences between the institutions, resulting in unfair assessment of universities in the Arab region. Thus, new sub-indicators were proposed for both ranking systems.

摘要

本研究回顾了三种大学排名方法：Quacquarelli Sysmonds 大学排名、泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名和上海交通大学世界大学学术排名。它还旨在提出两种新方法，一种用于世界大学排名，一种用于阿拉伯大学排名，并为新指标（如果有）提出数据收集工具。使用了一项引出定量数据的在线调查和两个产生定性数据的焦点小组讨论。调查结果显示，受访者排名的某些指标的重要性与三个国际排名体系中的相似，而另一些则不然。焦点小组建议指标的新权重，由于排名系统忽略了机构之间的差异，导致对阿拉伯地区大学的评估不公平。因此，为两个排名系统提出了新的子指标。