you are probably referring to Times-QS ranking where monash is ranked at 45 while nottingham is at 91 (http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2009/results) but this ranking is misleading as it focuses heavily on surveys and peer reviews (fake)

ARWU ranking is more established and accurate as it focuses on research output and quality of professor. Here, nottingham is ranked at 83 while monash is at 201-302.

link to arwu: http://www.arwu.org/ARWU2009.jsp

this is how qs-times calculate their rankings: http://www.topuniversities.com/university-...simple-overview

this is how arwu calculate it: http://www.arwu.org/ARWUMethodology2009.jsp

compare for yourselves

half of the qs ranking is based on online survey and nobody really knows what the sources are and the result can easily be faked/biased.

-http://research.qsnetwork.com/qs_surveysystem/index.php?viewonly&order=normal&partnerset=0&survey=52&jump_to_section=3

from the above webpage you can see QS-times ask for research quality in the peer review survey too (40%), but this is very inaccurate as there is no data backing it up, just a personal "feeling".

Here is a direct quote from the webpage:

"Please select up to thirty universities from our international list that you "regard as" producing the best research in the XXX subject area"

And I don;t see how faculty:student ratio (20% of the ranking) can denote quality. Simply having more lecturers does not make a university good (quantity ≠quality) An addition 10% is made up of international faculty and students. If they all come from, say Africa, then it will also be included in the ranking and no way does this reflects how "internationally" attractive it is.

You talk about graduate attributes which can no way be reflected from these rankings. Research/nobel prize means innovation, and having Nobel prize winners and whatever award holders as your lecturers probably means having a higher chance that creative graduates would be produced.

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Added on July 31, 2010, 5:56 pmI didn;t catch this the first time. QS-Times and Arwu are the two most popular rankings that are mostly reffered to.


This post has been edited by exzau: Jul 31 2010, 05:56 PM

is the induction programme really important? i plan to skip it but not sure if that would give me any trouble.

Does anyone know where to get the student ID and timetable? I did not attend the induction.

Thanks.

sorry, i mean student id card

does anyone know where to get the student id card and timetable (not in my email) thanks.

does anyone know how to fill up the forms- introductory info form and module entry form?
I missed the induction.

thanks.

does anyone know if we need to get more than 40% in both exam and coursework to pass a module or just 40% overall. For example in a 50-50 module, the mark for coursework is 65% while exam is 15%, is this still a pass?

thanks.

is anyone else's transcript channel gone suddenly?

the transcript tab is finally back. does anyone know how to calculate the average grade based on different credits. I have 5 20 credits subjects and 2 10 credits ones. Do you divide the grade for each 10 credit subject by 2, then add them together to weight it equally to a 20 credit subject?