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[quote=Anonymous]I have responded more than once in this thread ("garbage in, garbage out").

Basing this ranking on 4 different rankings from around the world does not make sense because each rating & ranking system has its own categories--many of which are subjective including "academic reputation".

Rating & ranking schools is fine so long as the ranking system shares the methodology and the score for each rating category within that methodology. This allows readers and consumers to break out each category individually and rerank the schools based on a single rating factor. This way one can focus on the aspect--whether subjective or objective--that matters most to that consumer.

An objective factor that I find useful, but does not appear to be used by any of the four rankings system combined by bluesky, is a school's R&D (research & development) expenditures/budget for a particular year. The budget/expenditures is more important than publications because much research is done for private industry and, most likely, never published.[/quote]

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