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ARMENIAN UNIVERSITIES FIND NO PLACE IN WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2011-2012
arminfo
Friday, March 16, 15:00
Armenian universities have found no place The Times Higher Education
World University Rankings 2011-2012 (Top 600 universities for
2011-2012 education year). Top three universities were Harvard
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge. The
top 100 universities included 44 universities of in the USA and 10
in Great Britain. The ranking was prepared on the basis of polls
among 17.5 professors and teachers from 137 countries. Minister of
Education and Science of Armenia Armen Ashotyan comments on the
given situation on his Facebook profile page: "At the moment, we
have more modest aspirations: to have at least 5 universities with
international accreditation within 5 years and to bring the average
level of the higher education to the level of Eastern Europe (Poland,
Czech Republic, Baltic States)."
At the same time, Yerevan State University was lately announced the
Best University in South Caucasus after it rose from the last year's
2856 position to 1880 in the rating of "Webometrics Ranking of World
Universities".
Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published
twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January
and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more
than 20,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. Four indicators
were obtained from the quantitative results provided by the main
search engines as follows: Size (S). Number of pages recovered from
four engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing Search. Visibility (V). The
total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site,
according to Yahoo Site Explorer.
Rich Files (R). After evaluation of their relevance to academic and
publication activities and considering the volume of the different
file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf),
Adobe PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft Powerpoint
(.ppt). These data were extracted using Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Scholar (Sc). The data is a combination of items published between 2006
and 2010 included in Google Scholar and the global output (2004.-2008)
obtained from Scimago SIR.
It is noteworthy that Khazar University took the 6233rd position
after it fell 22 position since 2010. Baku University took the 8833th
position, while the leading Georgian Ilia State University took the
2464th position.
arminfo
Friday, March 16, 15:00
Armenian universities have found no place The Times Higher Education
World University Rankings 2011-2012 (Top 600 universities for
2011-2012 education year). Top three universities were Harvard
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cambridge. The
top 100 universities included 44 universities of in the USA and 10
in Great Britain. The ranking was prepared on the basis of polls
among 17.5 professors and teachers from 137 countries. Minister of
Education and Science of Armenia Armen Ashotyan comments on the
given situation on his Facebook profile page: "At the moment, we
have more modest aspirations: to have at least 5 universities with
international accreditation within 5 years and to bring the average
level of the higher education to the level of Eastern Europe (Poland,
Czech Republic, Baltic States)."
At the same time, Yerevan State University was lately announced the
Best University in South Caucasus after it rose from the last year's
2856 position to 1880 in the rating of "Webometrics Ranking of World
Universities".
Since 2004, the Ranking Web (or Webometrics Ranking) is published
twice a year (data is collected during the first weeks of January
and July for being public at the end of both months), covering more
than 20,000 Higher Education Institutions worldwide. Four indicators
were obtained from the quantitative results provided by the main
search engines as follows: Size (S). Number of pages recovered from
four engines: Google, Yahoo, and Bing Search. Visibility (V). The
total number of unique external links received (inlinks) by a site,
according to Yahoo Site Explorer.
Rich Files (R). After evaluation of their relevance to academic and
publication activities and considering the volume of the different
file formats, the following were selected: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf),
Adobe PostScript (.ps), Microsoft Word (.doc) and Microsoft Powerpoint
(.ppt). These data were extracted using Google, Yahoo and Bing.
Scholar (Sc). The data is a combination of items published between 2006
and 2010 included in Google Scholar and the global output (2004.-2008)
obtained from Scimago SIR.
It is noteworthy that Khazar University took the 6233rd position
after it fell 22 position since 2010. Baku University took the 8833th
position, while the leading Georgian Ilia State University took the
2464th position.