Universities should boycott the sleazy organizations that make money by ranking universities according to questionable criteria using non-transparent methods.
And they're starting to do it! The Sorbonne has just announced that it won't give data to the Times Higher Education rankings anymore. Columbia University and Utrecht University have also quit, as have the medical and law schools of Harvard and Yale.
700 research organizations, funders and professional societies have signed the Agreement on Reforming Research Assessment in favor of making scientific research, data, methods, and educational resources transparent, accessible and reusable by everyone without barriers.
But we're a long way from getting there!
https://scroll.in/article/1087997/why-the-worlds-top-universities-are-abandoning-the-ranking-system


