Ranking Fatigue is a Worldwide Phenomenon

Ranking fatigue has finally set in, and its a worldwide phenomenon.

A number of high-profile law schools in the US recently announced they will no longer participate in one commercial ranking; Dutch universities have begun a move away from using rankings and citation indexes for evaluating university performance, and that of their faculty.

China, home of the Shanghai Jaio Tong global ranking of world universities, has done something similar in its recent ministerial edicts.

Some universities, admittedly usually brand-name institutions with previously established international profiles, are refusing to participate in rankings – meaning they are not supplying information requested by commercial rankers, many of whom simply find a way to find basic information, like faculty to student ratios and research funding, to keep them in their ranking products.

At the same time, the COVID pandemic acted as a disruptor with the rush to on-line courses and a dissipation of the normal life of universities.

In some form the war in Ukraine and increased international tension has also brought into questions or at least a reconsideration the strategies of universities that have focused so much on improving their rankings, and therefore sense of prestige and importance.

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