Say what you will about university rankings, they are used in media and political circles and along with the recent OECD report will provide an interesting context to the Hunt Report “debate”. I think it is naive to suggest that such large falls/gains mean a university is significantly better or worse than it was a year before – the large changes are more likely due to the change in methodology in the case of THE (who departed from QS and established a new rankings this year with Thompson Reuters) – their weighting for staff-student ratio is down, the weighting for learning environment is up and the weighting on “subjective opinion polls” is significantly reduced. The 2010 & 2009 figures are listed:
QS/THE 2009 |
THE/ Thompson Reuters 2010 |
QS 2010 |
|
DIT |
326 |
347 |
395 |
DCU |
279 |
313 |
330 |
UCD |
89 |
94 |
114 |
TCD |
43 |
76 |
52 |
NUIG |
243 |
299 |
232 |
UCC |
207 |
243 |
184 |
UL |
401 - 500 |
>400 |
451-500 |
NUIM |
401 - 500 |
>400 |
401-450 |
| 2010 | 2009 | Change | |
| DIT | 395 | 326 | -69 |
| DCU | 330 | 279 | -51 |
| UCD | 114 | 89 | -25 |
| TCD | 43 | 52 | 9 |
| UCG | 232 | 243 | 11 |
| UCC | 184 | 207 | 23 |
| UL | 451 – 500 | 401 – 500 | |
| NUIM | 401 – 450 | 401 – 500 |
Source: THE/QS 2009, QS 2010: http://www.topuniversities.com/country-guides/ireland
Click on image for THE article for their methodology 2010
