Research Handbook on University Rankings Theory, Methodology, Influence and Impact
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Biographical note
Edited by Ellen Hazelkorn, Partner, BH Associates, Professor Emerita, Technological University Dublin, Ireland and Joint Editor, Policy Reviews in Higher Education and Georgiana Mihut, Assistant Professor, Department of Education Studies, University of Warwick, UK<i>‘The authors give a comprehensive review and analysis of the impact of global university rankings since their establishment in 2003.’</i>
- Hester Klopper, Daily Maverick South Africa,
<i>‘This book is a must-have for higher education policymakers, administrators, and researchers who are directly involved in all aspects of university performance.’</i>
- Ruth A Pagell, Emory University,
<i>‘The </i>Research Handbook on University Rankings<i> contains informative studies introducing theoretical frameworks, methodological tensions, influences and impacts that university global rankings have brought into higher education systems and individual institutions in the context of globalization and internationalization. Looking back over 20 years, the monograph consisting 37 chapters in six themes extensively analyses related ranking issues in the past as well as explores the new modes and imaginaries for future development.’</i>
- Angela Yung Chi Hou, International Journal of Chinese Education,
<i>‘The </i>Research Handbook on University Rankings<i> offers a highly useful and wide-ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.’</i>
- John Aubrey Douglass, University of California, Berkeley, US,
<i>‘An enlightening Handbook on everything you always wanted to know about rankings but could not find an answer to: highly reflexive contributions on rankings themselves; challenging analysis of their impact on globalizing higher education and science and on national and institutional policies in different country settings; diving into the business of rankers and publishers; case studies of universities seeking for improved ranks. . . All facets of rankings are scrutinized.’</i>
- Christine Musselin, CNRS and Sciences Po, France,
<i>‘The </i>Research Handbook on University Rankings<i> offers a highly useful and wide ranging look at the influential role of global rankings, including a frank assessment of the good, the bad and the ugly. National case studies in particular give the reader an understanding of the global drive for metrics and standardized evaluations of university performance, and the actual impact on funding, policies and the behaviors of individual institutions. What is the future of the proliferation of ranking enterprises? The chapters seem to indicate that they will live on as powerful consumer guides for prospective students in the post-COVID era of global talent mobility, but perhaps are waning as an instigator of government policies.’</i>
- John Aubrey Douglass, UC Berkeley, US,
<i>‘With 20 major university rankings, and counting, we badly need better to understand this trend which nearly everyone simultaneously loves and hates. This Research Handbook is a major contribution to that understanding, putting rankings for the first time in their proper context, theoretically and in terms of policy.’</i>
- Peter Scott, UCL Institute of Education, UK,
<i>‘If you read only one book about the “whys”, the “hows” and the “impacts” of higher education rankings, this volume is it. Taking both a historical and an international perspective on this global phenomenon, this collection of articles offers expert views on the changes rankings have brought to the world of higher education locally, globally and in terms of each university mission, as well as an analysis of the methodological and political issues rankings raise. A comprehensive reflection on rankings – now a permanent fixture in the higher education policy landscape – well worth reading.’</i>
- Eva Egron-Polak, Former Secretary General, Senior Fellow, International Association of Universities,