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In today’s world of plentiful information and fast paced lives, people tend to rely on readily available and easy to comprehend rankings or ratings when making choices. This is also evident in the rapidly expanding university sector, which has a total enrolment exceeding 150 million students. In particular, the world university rankings, which became available in 2003, are appealing to higher education stakeholders and have prompted increased attention and commitment to the sector, as they are seen by many as proxy indicators of reputation and performance of universities, despite there having been strong criticism regarding the limitations of their methodologies as well as their having had undue influence (Guttenplan, 2011).
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Ramakrishna, S. (2013). World University Rankings and the Consequent Reactions of Emerging Nations. In: Wang, Q., Cheng, Y., Liu, N.C. (eds) Building World-Class Universities. Global Perspectives on Higher Education, vol 25. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-034-7_8
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