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View SchemaWorld University Rankings - A Principal Component Analysis
| Authors | Joao E. Steiner |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0605252 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0605252 |
Abstract
In order to establish which parameters and corresponding weights are more appropriate for the assessment of academic excellence in the context of university rankings, I have made a multivariate data analysis on a set of 13 parameters for 178 institutions. I found that the three more relevant components are academic excellence (48%), internationalism (14%) and faculty/student ratio (8%). It is shown that these components are not correlated.
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