Rankings were set up to measure general universities, not specialist colleges and schools, and that is what they do. A further 23 of the top 200 are in the A2 group – still large, but a little less productive of research – and 22 are in group E1, highly research-intensive in all fields but with fewer students. Yale, number three in our ranking, is an E1 institution.
However, a more interesting story lies beneath. The London School of Economics, 67th in the rankings, has long complained that its social science specialism prevents it from featuring as highly in our rankings as it should. It is, in fact, the only H1 institution in our top 200, showing that it is the best medium- sized, research-intensive specialist
university in the world. This classification system also points up the large number of science and technology specialists which do well in the rankings, many of which appear in groups F1 and G1. They include world names such as Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), EPFL in Switzerland and KAIST in Korea.
This analysis also shows that small universities find it hard to look good in our rankings. Types I, J, K and L, with fewer than 5,000 students, contribute only six of the top 200. Three of these are elite, research-intensive French institutions which produce most of that country’s top executives, politicians and public servants. One thing we have always known about the World University
Rankings is that as soon as they are published, the cleverest people in the world set about analysing them. We encourage this activity, and we are sure that this new classification system in 2009 will provide the basis for even more ways of looking at the data we present here.
By Martin Ince, QS World University Rankings
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www.topuniversities.com
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