The QS World University Rankings 2025 say, "This year’s ranking is the largest ever, featuring over 1,500 universities". Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, sits at number 244, putting it within only the top 20% of those rankings. What does Victoria say about this matter? "Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University is in the top 1% of the world’s universities for 15 subjects". What is the truth?
Victoria has found a handful of subjects where it ranks in the top 150 of the QS subject ranking list. To express that number as a percentage works as follows: 150 / 1,500 = 10%. Yes, top 10%, not top 1%, for those subjects. Victoria is either not telling the truth or it can't calculate percentages.
My understanding of what Victoria has done is it to divide 150 by 18,000 (not 1,500). Why? Because in 2024 it stated, "The latest QS World Rankings place the University in the top 245 of the world’s 18,000 universities". But QS did not rank 18,000 "world" universities (that number is made up and bogus). It ranked 1,500. Given the aim of Universities is a search for the truth, Victoria should top these PR, marketing & communications games that are designed to hide the truth.
Looks to me like its trying to attract more students for financial gain by misleading them as to its world ranking.
Professor Robert MacCulloch holds the Matthew S. Abel Chair of Macroeconomics at Auckland University. He has previously worked at the Reserve Bank, Oxford University, and the London School of Economics. He runs the blog Down to Earth Kiwi from where this article was sourced.
5 comments:
If there was a ranking for sucking up to iwi they would be number one.
Remember, all NZ universities cite ranking outfits most favourable to them. QS rankings' criteria favour NZ universities more than Times Higher Education. If I recall, QS gives more weight to sustainability, for example, not providing students with printed books and handouts-- or having written tests.
And this is a university ?
A place of higher learning ?
Cannot do simple arithmetic ?
It is Laugh out Loud. Embarrassing.
You reckon? Waikato is worse but admittedly Waikato offers a wider range of courses of a high standard.
It's acceptable for them to lie and fudge numbers....it's run by far left woke lunatics no doubt.
Now their time is due, name these liars, karma will put them right.
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