How do you think of the University ranking???
By AugusYe
@AugusYe (60)
China
June 5, 2012 4:13am CST
Choosing which university to attend is one of the most important decisions one makes.And a poor choice may hold one back for the rest of his life.Unieversity rankings,however,become the most popular way of evaluating a higher education institution.
Some people argue university rankings are not accurate and outdated because they are not able to keep up with the trends.And they rely heavily on statistics which say little about the true quality of education of an institution. In my eyes,university ranking systerms always give misleading information and can not reflect the comprehensive quality of education.
One way they are misleading is that they tend to evaluate the entire school rather than specific programs.For example,the university of Tennessee in the US never scores in the highest.However,UT has one of the finest cancer research programs in the world.Anyone who wants to enter this field would never enter this school if they only refered to the university ranking.
For this reason,it is reasonable for any students to evaluate all aspects of a school carefully before making decisions,not just its university ranking~~~~
So,I wonder how do you think of this ?????
3 responses
@Poseidon2012 (45)
• China
5 Jun 12
Ranking stands for the general academical level of universities, ranking is important. Student strived hard to get fit in right environment, and got tutored by quality teachers, to be able to get suitable facility and hardware to further their research.
However, ranking isn't every thing when comes to reality of society. I had a class mate, he has only got an assoicate degree. He is not doing well in school, he is not very good at English, he barely past his advanced math test. He is good at organzing cheating in exam. I remembered in an English test, he and his friend left class room, and went to toilet, They switched the exam notes under the partition wall of toilet, they never get caught, well, I think that was another kind of team work. He liked to socialize with people, he went to dancing party every week.
He went back to society and turned into an entrepreneur, he is hiring very smart talents from high ranking school, he is making millions of bucks today! Therefore innovation, courage, and flexibility for an individual is more important than university ranking in some circumstance.
@AugusYe (60)
• China
6 Jun 12
hello poseidon2012.it is really a funny story about your friend ,and i can't agree more about what you said.i do believe that the society need those who have a great comprehensive capability rather than the background of the school. but i just found that some companies pay much attention to the school ranking than students own capacity!so i think it is very sucks~~~~
@mensab (4200)
• Philippines
5 Jun 12
well, the university ranking informs the public of the competitiveness of universities worldwide in certain aspects (internationalization of faculty and students, research, etc..). the ranking can even be reduced to certain fields such as social sciences, arts and humanities, science and technology, etc.. it is in no way can evaluate the true value and quality of education. it is for information of the public and improvement of universities to remain competitive in the global scale.
@AugusYe (60)
• China
5 Jun 12
Yes ,your view is reasonable and it's true that the university ranking is just a basic information for public and society.Maybe the initial purpose of the university ranking are ,to some extent, to improve the competitive between universities and to improve the the teaching quality.But nowadays,there are many colleges give wrong and unreal information to the public and misleading the parents and students.And i really think it is a very bad phenomenon existed in society~~~~
@jennyze (7028)
• Indonesia
13 Jun 12
I agree, we must look into what is best of the university before we joined. There are lots of propaganda saying: University A is the best in town, University B got he first medal for world robot competition... and so on. But I wonder how long ago was it that the university got the first medal or nominated as the best in town? Do they keep the quality or the standard? Do they can still be categorized as the best in its field? Reviewing from every angles is the key, I guess.
