Some ranking sources

(G) – Government (O) – Independant Non-Profit Organisation (C) – Corporate Ranking Companies / Media World Ranking Guardian News – http://education.guardian.co.uk World (C) TimesHigherEducation – http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/ World (C) Webometrics – http://www.webometrics.info/ Country Specific RAE – http://www.rae.ac.uk/ (O)(UK) British Council – http://www.britishcouncil.org (G)(UK) USNEWS – http://www.usnews.com/sections/rankings (C)(USA) References http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_and_university_rankings

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How rankings work?

There are various ranking companies or organisations all over the world. How they work is very subjective and sometimes, it does not fit the “taste” to individual needs. For example, business newspapers would rate according to business standards, research based publications would rate according to fundings and so on for other subjective relations, which will [...]

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Choosing a right university

Choosing a right university can be daunting. A few things that comes to mind that you need to consider is: 1. Reputation of the University 2. Fundings the University has 3. Location of the University 4. University Industrial Partners The above has different orders of priority depending on what YOU want to do. Are you [...]

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Some good universities

Following Institutions are very well known locally and world-wide. These are based on a survey which asked a list of schools people have heard of or are reliably comfortable with. Without perference of order: Europe Cambridge University – Cambridge, UK Oxford University – Oxford, UK University College London – London Imperial University – London Asia [...]

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