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.
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