It is interesting that the older IITs, reject THE for being ‘subjective’ and prefer to go with QS rankings.
Fact is that QS gives 40% weightage to subjective views. THE measures and gives greater weight to quantifiable outcomes. Unfortunately, even the government of India prefers QS rankings for some unknown reason and ignores THE.
NIRF, the Indian ranking system, in contrast to both THE and QS gives a lot of weight to things like the age of the faculty, student- teacher ratio, male female ratio, the number of people from outside the state in a university and the number of students placed. Inevitably, in this NIRF ranking the IITs stand out. Interestingly, in this particular rankings some universities like JNU openly fib data. But, NIRF doesn’t even have algorithms to cross check the fiction.
THE has a lot of controversy, mainly over undue weightage given to citations on research papers. This is also touted by some universities as advertising material of “high h-index”. For e.g. Shoolini university claims to be 2nd in h-index in India but is nowhere in rankings. But citations hardly tell the real story of the University and the methodology of THE has often been biased towards “quantity” outputs rather than “quality” outputs. This isn’t this anonymous poster’s opinion but a high number of academics believe THE rankings are flawed. Although, I agree with you that NIRF data can be gamed easily as I have actually seen this in action.
It is interesting that the older IITs, reject THE for being ‘subjective’ and prefer to go with QS rankings.
Fact is that QS gives 40% weightage to subjective views. THE measures and gives greater weight to quantifiable outcomes. Unfortunately, even the government of India prefers QS rankings for some unknown reason and ignores THE.
NIRF, the Indian ranking system, in contrast to both THE and QS gives a lot of weight to things like the age of the faculty, student- teacher ratio, male female ratio, the number of people from outside the state in a university and the number of students placed. Inevitably, in this NIRF ranking the IITs stand out. Interestingly, in this particular rankings some universities like JNU openly fib data. But, NIRF doesn’t even have algorithms to cross check the fiction.
THE has a lot of controversy, mainly over undue weightage given to citations on research papers. This is also touted by some universities as advertising material of “high h-index”. For e.g. Shoolini university claims to be 2nd in h-index in India but is nowhere in rankings. But citations hardly tell the real story of the University and the methodology of THE has often been biased towards “quantity” outputs rather than “quality” outputs. This isn’t this anonymous poster’s opinion but a high number of academics believe THE rankings are flawed. Although, I agree with you that NIRF data can be gamed easily as I have actually seen this in action.
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