Weightings are decided upon by Times Higher Education based on their opinion of the importance of the measured criteria balanced against the effectiveness of the indicator to evaluate the intended measure.
Academic Peer ReviewThe Academic Peer Review is the centrepiece of the THE - QS World University Rankings and is based on an online survey distributed to academics worldwide. Results are compiled based on three years worth of responses totalling 6,354 in 2008. Respondents are not permitted to submit their own institution or to respond more than once (their latest respose is counted). Weightings are applied both geographically and by discipline to ensure as fair a representative spread as possible.
Employer ReviewSimilar to the Academic Peer Review, this indicator is based on a global online survey, this time distributed to employers. Results are again based on three years worth of "latest respose" data. Geographical weightings are again applied to ensure fair representation from ke regions of the world.
Faculty Student RatioFaculty Student Ratio is used in many ranking systems and evaluations in the world, and whilst it may not be a perfect measure of teaching quality, it is the most globally available and accessible measure of commitment to teaching. An indication that the institution in question has sufficient staff to teach its students.
Citations per FacultyCitations are a widely used, conventional mesure of research strength. A citation is a reference to one academic publication in the text of another. The more citations a publication receives the better it is perceived to be, the more highly cited papers a university publishes, the stronger it can be considered to be. As a measure this is somewhat geared towards scientific and technical subjects, which is why it doesn't carry more weight. The source used in this evaluation is Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database of research literature. The latest five complete years of data are used. The total citation count is factored against the number of faculty in order to take into account the size of the institution.
International FactorsIn today's increasingly globalized world, the most successful universities have to attract the world's bet students and faculty. Simple evaluations of the proportion of international students and international faculty serve as indicators of an institution's international attractiveness.
These indicators are then combined using standard statistical methods to yield the overall scores you will see in the results tables.
以上是英国《泰晤士报》
2008年顶尖大学排行榜的评分准则。侠客无才,无法把它全部翻译成中文。所以唯有将它整编抄来。让大家看看评分的准则也想想我国的大学该如何改善。如想要知道更多资料,请到官方网站看看。以侠客浅见,我国的大学要
恢复以往的打入100大排行里好像有很长的路要走。