A few days ago, a college classmate talked to me about the university chart, because his granddaughter was about to graduate from a high school international class at Renmin University of China to study abroad.The status and role of university ranking in the public can be seen.However, for this kind of professional "university ranking" many members of the public to its "doorways" is not clear, a bit of "expert watch, expert doorman.
Several domestic and foreign universities have recently announced their withdrawal from the university charts, including prestigious ones, mainly because of the lack of credibility and credibility of some charts driven by profits.This undoubtedly puts cold water on institutions that are keen on "university rankings," especially those that focus on profitability.Some of the "university charts" have deviated from their original intentions. Their sources are difficult, inaccurate, and objective and do not provide valuable information to the public.A few years ago, there was also a scandal in which individual university ranking agencies received bribes from related universities.
If we simply analyze the Chinese university rankings, it is easy to find some phenomena with Chinese characteristics, some universities rely mainly on the high position of the body weight in the ranking.As we all know, the university merger boom has begun in Korea since 2000.The largest merger I know is Jilin University, which is formed by the merger of five universities, Jilin University of Technology, Changchun University of Science and Technology, Bethune Medical University and Changchun College of Posts and Telecommunications.So there is Changchun City in Jilin University teasing, at present Jilin University only full-time teachers there are 6,379.There are also many universities that combine four universities, such as Wuhan University, Zhejiang University, Wuhan University of Technology, two and three merged universities.Some of these universities belong to strong and strong associations, while others belong to weak and weak associations or strong associations.Some of these universities are only large in size, lack of specialized subjects, weak teachers, and lack a strong academic environment.Imagine what it would mean to rank a high-level professional university with a subject-specific characteristics on the list of universities with a large combined university?Therefore, the list of universities with data volumes (including those that artificially divide universities into "segments") is of little value.
In a recent public welfare report, "Education, Technology, Talent - The Holy Mission of Universities", I use scientific measurement data to compare the educational, technological and talent strengths of several Education Ministry universities in Wuhan.The results of the rankings are very different if they are based on the number of students enrolled, the number of teachers, the total budget and the size of the campus, etc.First, the second-place Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Wuhan University basically did not change much, but the third-place and subsequent rankings changed a lot.For example, Huazhong Agricultural University has only 1,700 full-time faculty members, of whom 26 and 20 have received outstanding youth funds and outstanding youth science funds, far more than some of the top-ranked universities.Clearly, this chart change reflects the type and parameters of indicators used.In fact, this situation is also reflected in some academic-oriented university rankings.
There have been criticisms of the university rankings in international academia.The criticism has also come from some of the world's most prestigious universities, although they are among the top universities in the world.The criticism of the president of Princeton University is the most representative."University rankings are stupid and misleading," he said.Those of us who know the rankings must constantly point out their shortcomings.Even when our school has always been number one.It doesn't matter if rankings only affect the right of alumni to show off and brag.However, applicants and their families rely on ranking schools, and they feel the pressure to enter a high ranking school.As a result, many schools are trying to improve their rankings.This competition can create destructive motivation for schools.”
Therefore, I would like to advise our parents and students (students) to seriously understand the university's academic characteristics and level and the university's academic environment.It can only be hoped that our universities will disclose data on their level of operation so that the public can judge their academic characteristics, rather than simply rely on the many and dazzling "university lists."