New ‘indisputable’ rankings scoreboard for universities

The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has developed a global higher education ranking system it hopes will become the go-to international scoreboard for university performance and ease concerns about the distorting effects of league tables, writes Jordan Baker for The Sydney Morning Herald.

UNSW Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Research Nicholas Fisk said the system combines the top three existing rankings to broaden the criteria for judging universities and prevent too much emphasis on research at the expense of other factors.

“We hope it will be the international scoreboard, like the ATP tennis rankings,” Fisk said. “That it will be the indisputable umpired scoreboard for where people fit in on the academic rankings.” The scoreboard is called the Aggregate Rankings of Top Universities or ARTU, and puts the University of Melbourne at the top in Australia.
Full report on The Sydney Morning Herald site