In this October 17, 2013 article found on Forbes.com website, Eva Cairns interviews Nello Angerilli, Associate Vice President International for the University of Waterloo in Canada. Read Mr. Angerilli's common sense advice when it comes to interpreting global university rankings and deciding where to apply to university.
The newly released QS University Rankings form one of the few global rankings of universities. How many such lists exist to rank universities around the world?There are four or five university ranking systems that take a global approach. They are QS “World University Ranking”; Times Higher Education World University Ranking; Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU – often referred to as the “Shanghai Jiao Tong” ranking because it is produced by a unit at Shanghai Jiao Tong University); the CWTS Leiden Ranking and the Webometrics Ranking. There is also an interesting one that ranks universities around the world in terms of their environmental sustainability: the UI GreenMetric World University Ranking created and compiled by the University of Indonesia. More . . .
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