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Stratified University Strategies: The Shaping of Institutional Legitimacy in a Global Perspective
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Stensaker, Bjørn; Lee, Jenny J.; Rhoades, Gary; Ghosh, Sowmya; Castiello-Gutiérrez, Santiago; Vance, Hillary; Çalikoglu, Alper; Kramer, Vannessa; Liu, Shuiyun; Marei, Mahmoud Sayed; O'Toole, Leslie; Pavlyutkin, Ivan; Peel, Cassandra – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Globalizing forces have both transformed the higher education sector and made it increasingly homogenous. Growing similarities among universities have been attributed to isomorphic pressures to ensure and/or enhance legitimacy by imitating higher education institutions that are perceived as successful internationally, particularly universities…
Descriptors: Universities, Strategic Planning, Institutional Characteristics, Organizational Theories
A Comparison of China's "Ivy League" to Other Peer Groupings through Global University Rankings
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Allen, Ryan M. – Journal of Studies in International Education, 2017
This article analyzes the People's Republic of China's elite-making higher education policies that began in the early 1990s, notably with the 211 Project and then 985 Project, which led to the formation of the C9 League, a group of nine leading institution's dubbed China's "Ivy League." This elite grouping is compared with other Chinese…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Colleges
The Impact of World Ranking Systems on Graduate Schools of Business: Promoting the Manipulation of Image over the Management of Substance
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Rondeau, Kent V. – World Journal of Education, 2017
This essay explores and examines how rankings and league tables have played (and continue to play) a major and consequential role in how contemporary business schools manage their affairs. It introduces and advances the proposition that rankings promote the short-term manipulation of public reputation (image) projected by business schools at the…
Descriptors: Business Schools, Graduate Study, Achievement Rating, Reputation
Ranking Accounting Authors and Departments in Accounting Education: Different Methodologies--Significantly Different Results
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Bernardi, Richard A.; Zamojcin, Kimberly A.; Delande, Taylor L. – Accounting Education, 2016
This research tests whether Holderness Jr., D. K., Myers, N., Summers, S. L., & Wood, D. A. [(2014). "Accounting education research: Ranking institutions and individual scholars." "Issues in Accounting Education," 29(1), 87-115] accounting-education rankings are sensitive to a change in the set of journals used. It provides…
Descriptors: Accounting, Authors, Departments, Business Administration Education
TIMSS 2011 International Results in Science
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Martin, Michael O.; Mullis, Ina V. S.; Foy, Pierre; Stanco, Gabrielle M. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2012
For more than 50 years, the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) has been conducting comparative studies of educational achievement in a number of curriculum areas, including mathematics and science. TIMSS 2011 represents the fifth cycle of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS),…
Descriptors: Science Achievement, Comparative Education, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Comparative Education: Statistics on Education in the United States and Selected Foreign Nations. CRS Report for Congress.
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Redd, Kenneth; Riddle, Wayne C. – 1988
While there are severe limitations on the availability, comparability, and reliability of education statistics for the United States and other major foreign nations, a comparison of data reveals that the relative ranking of the United States among other nations with respect to educational participation in general is high, but that it is low in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Rating, Comparative Analysis, Data Interpretation