[LINK] 'World best universities' - Maybe

[Tom Koltai]

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> stephen at melbpc.org.au
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> Subject: [LINK] 'World best universities'
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> 
> Hmm, five in this top fifty .. ANU, Melbourne, Sydney, 
> Queensland and NSW.
> 
> So ten percent of the world's 'best universities'. Not too 
> shabby i guess.
> 
www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/20
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Whilst it is good to be proud of Australia's achievements, the baseline
for the rating appears to be based on "Q-Stars.
This list of top universities would appear to be a self registering
system and should therefore be treated only as a partial subset.

E.G: In Australia, there are only 8 universities listed.[1] of the 36
that we do have. [2]

Globally, the list only compares some of the universities from only the
following countries.

Australia	
India
Indonesia	
Ireland
Italy	
Mexico
New Zealand	
Saudi Arabia
Singapore	
Spain
Spain	
Sweden
United Arab Emirates	
United Kingdom
United States

On that basis, what we would appear to have is a list of those
universities that market themselves the best internationally.

[1] http://www.topuniversities.com/qsstars/australia
[2] http://www.australian-universities.com/list/

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