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University rankings – a guide to choose a university?

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  • Jianu (Dumitru), Ionela
  • Dumitru, Ionut

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In a more and more global world, universities compete for both students and faculty staff. Do university rankings offer a good perspective when it comes to choosing a university, as a student or university professor/researcher? This paper presents an analysis of well-known university rankings, trying to answer to the above mentioned question. It also presents an alternative to such rankings, namely intellectual capital evaluation models.

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  • Jianu (Dumitru), Ionela & Dumitru, Ionut, 2011. "University rankings – a guide to choose a university?," MPRA Paper 29623, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    1. Karl-Heinz Leitner, 2004. "Intellectual capital reporting for universities: conceptual background and application for Austrian universities," Research Evaluation, Oxford University Press, vol. 13(2), pages 129-140, August.
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    Keywords

    university rankings; indicators; intellectual capital;
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    • M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
    • I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
    • A2 - General Economics and Teaching - - Economic Education and Teaching of Economics

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