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Rankings of WorldUniversities
About 20 different global universityrankings are listed in the Wikipediapage "College and university rankings"
These rankings havean impact on scientificand educational policiesof governments
Istherean universalranking withouta priori criteria andwithout cultural bias ?
All these rankings are composite:
Also, universities are preselected
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So let's shakeWikipedia !!
Wikipedia Ranking of World UniversitiesConclusion
WRWU is free from any cultural preferences since : - it takes into account many cultural points of view as we use all human knowledge contained in 24 Wikipedia language editions (17 millions Wiki articles) - these cultural points of view are treated on equal footing with the same statistical analysis (PageRank, CheiRank, 2DRank)WRWU measures academic excellence (top 10 and top 100are similar to ARWU) but also historic, social, or regionalimportance of universities.
WRWU can be considered as complementary to already existing rankings such as ARWU, but in fact it encodesalready all existing rankings since Wikipedia containsinformation on it.Universal ranking ?