5/31/2023 0 Comments Obscurity ratingThe THE has, in recent years, produced rankings for all occasions from the full world ranking to some very niche ones. Don’t let me hear you say life’s taking you nowhere Interesting criteria and big congratulations to Brighton for achieving peak hipsterdom. That’s 2,834 record stores, 7,772 vegan eats, 14,588 tattoo studios, 15,549 vintage boutiques, and 93,203 coffee shops covering a combined population of over 200,000,000 people. We looked at 446 cities across 20 countries. To prevent inflated numbers - and preserve our sanity - we excluded cities with populations below 150,000. Combined and weighted they produce a Hipster Index score out of ten for each city. Our new, improved, alternative Hipster Index combines five data points: the number of vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores per 100,000 city residents. You pretty thingsĪnd then there is the Hipster Index of the hippest cities across the globe: That’s one of the key criteria in Reuters’ ranking, which was compiled in partnership with Clarivate Analytics, and is based on proprietary data and analysis of patent filings and research paper citations. Patents filed by KU scientists are frequently cited by other researchers in academia and in private industry. A Dutch-speaking school based in Belgium’s Flanders region KU Leuven was founded in 1425 by Pope Martin V and continually produces a high volume of influential inventions. Identifies and ranks the educational institutions doing the most to advance science, invent new technologies and power new markets and industries. This list has Belgium’s KU Leuven at the top with Imperial and Cambridge in 2nd and 3rd place. Little wondersĪn excitingly innovative league table is offered by Reuters -which ranks Europe’s most innovative universities. No, instead what you care about is how cheap is a pint going to be if you go to Nottingham? How much carnage are the halls in Sussex? Are the rumours true that everyone in Newcastle is a 10/10?Īnyway, Manchester comes out on top and you can see how well they scored against the distinctive criteria: And correct me if I’m wrong, but who actually cares or judges a uni on any of those things? As per, Oxford and Cambridge always come on top with the usual London lot trickling behind.īut the problem with these rankings is they’re judged on boring shit like staff to student ratio, feedback satisfaction and whether you’ll get a career after six months after graduating. It’s that time of the year where all you see the annual university league tables. Strange fascinationīut here’s a refreshing approach from the Tab which makes a bit of a change from ‘which ice cream is your uni?’ It doesn’t produce a radically different ranking with Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, Oxford as the top 5 but it’s fair to say it lacks the impact of its rivals. In 2014, the ranking expanded to list the top 1000 out of eighteen thousand universities worldwide, making it the largest academic ranking of global universities. It was quickly reported worldwide by universities and the media and many requests were received to expand it. The ranking started out as a project in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia with the aim of rating the top 100 world universities. Since 2012, CWUR has been publishing the only academic ranking of global universities that assesses the quality of education, alumni employment, research output, and citations without relying on surveys and university data submissions. So a brief summary of some of the recent rankings you may have missed: I wrote it ten times or moreĪccording to its webpage the Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is a consulting organization providing “policy advice, strategic insights, and consulting services to governments and universities” and produces its own global league table: The Complete University Guide league tableĪs well as some of the really not terribly good ones as highlighted in the latest ranking of the dumbest rankings, there are several other recently published ones which we simply haven’t had the opportunity to report on here. The extraordinarily subtle free speech ranking The UK’s first ranking of university car parking Here at Wonkhe we have covered some of the bigger ones: The relentless march of league tables continues unabated.
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