Nearly all Canadian universities dropped in the latest CWUR Global 2000 rankings as research performance weakened amid tougher global competition. The rankings also show growing gains by Chinese universities while U.S. schools continue to dominate the top tier.
This feels rage baity and overblown.
When you have a ranking and you add a value yes, the ranks change.
That does not reflect a decline in quality, but the addition of a new higher quality value.
So yeah, insert one school between UofT and McGill, and all the others “drop”. That’s just basic logic.
But that doesn’t say that the quality of education changed or declined.
Someone teach CTV basic math please.
Yes but, for the private university system of North America, losing relative quality translates to loss of prestige, which directly affects the future of the institution. So if a bunch of other high quality institutions are springing to life ahead of well-established institutions, then yes I think that is cause for concern for these incumbents.
So I don’t think CTV needs math classes, I think our universities need funding.
I do think we need to actually manage our universities, but this as a metric doesn’t say anything useful.
It does, in the ways I explained. Rankings are not useless, even if they’re not the most important thing.
Reputation is critical in academia