Developing and expanding the universities and increasing the admission of medical students did resolve the physician shortage, but it brought down the educational quality in return. To face this problem, the administrates needed to promote the quality of education which in turn needed accurate up to date information about conditions in different universities. Information about these issues was ...

Academic ranking is a public topic, such as for universities, colleges, or departments, which has significant educational, administrative and social effects. Popular ranking systems include the US News & World Report (USNWR), the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), and others. The most popular observables for such ranking are academic publications and their citations. However, a rigo...

Academic quality rankings are a controversial, but enduring, part of the educational landscape—controversial because not everyone agrees that the quality of a school or a programme can be quantified (Casper, 1996), and enduring because of the lack of other publicly attractive methods for comparing institutions (Sanoff, 1998). While the lack of appealing alternatives has legitimated the use of r...

BACKGROUND Ranking of universities and institutions has attracted wide attention recently. Several systems have been proposed that attempt to rank academic institutions worldwide. METHODS We review the two most publicly visible ranking systems, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University 'Academic Ranking of World Universities' and the Times Higher Education Supplement 'World University Rankings' and a...

This paper proposes the idea of ranking definitions of a person (a set of biographical facts) to automatically generate “Who is this?” quizzes. The definitions are ordered according to how difficult they make it to name the person. Such ranking would enable users to interactively learn about a person through dialogue with a system with improved understanding and lasting motivation, which is use...