UnivPress Ranking 2017 – Excellence of Students

UnivPress Ranking 2017 – Excellence of Students

Headline, Results
The positions of faculties show a very stabile tendency: on the first ranking places we find the leading universities of Hungary's capitol. The No. 1 is the Corvinus University of Budapest Business School, since 2012, but in this period the other members of the TOP10 are similar too: three institutes (Faculty of Humanities, of Education and Psychology, of Law) belong to Eotvos Lorand University, three (Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, of Mechanical Engineering, of of Chemical Technology and Biotechnology) belong to Budapest University of Technology and Economics. And the latest results: (more…)
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Universities in Crossroads of National and Global Rankings

Universities in Crossroads of National and Global Rankings

(H)UnivPress Ranking, Headline
A brief overview of the International Ranking-Workshop at the Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology of Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE PPK) on the 31st March, 2017 The event was promoted by TEMPUS Public Foundation   At the event titled „Universities in Crossroads of National and Global Rankings” university leaders from Romania, Serbia and Hungary,  representatives of the International Ranking Expert Group, as well as Hungarian and foreign ranking-experts discussed the correspondence between national and global rankings. Around fifty participants disputed lectures on the incompetence of global rankings to measure the performance of universities. They also discussed the fact, that while the position of the very same universities on the national ranking scales and the international ones are hardly comparable due to indicator differences, the best universities nevertheless are at the top of any ranking…
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Where are we now?

(H)UnivPress Ranking
Comparing some European universities' ranking points by different rankings Click on the names for more information about the methodology of ARWU, Leiden, Scimagio, THE and QS [table id=arwu_the /] We may say that one year does not count much but according to the datas, there are several modifications among the ranks of the universities. Taking a look at Scimago's ranking, all of the universities mentioned in the list changed their positions between 2012 and 2013. It needs to be noticed, that the  approches uses different numbers: intervals and exact numbers are given as well in this summary which may fade the smaller differences. Two of Hungary's top universities' last decade according to ARWU University of Szeged: Eötvös Lorand University
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The impact of university ranking

(H)UnivPress Ranking
Interestingly, while respondents considered the aspects of ranking based on student and labour market opinion to be especially important among possible factors, they emphasize factual information in relation to the orientation of applications. The common opinion of the educational experts consulted is that the decision of applicants is primarily controlled by entrance exam requirements, admission scores and the opportunities of obtaining extra points. Accordingly the vast majority of respondents consider rankings important, but as it is seen from their responses not necessarily in selecting higher education institutions and developing their application strategy. Even if according to expert opinion and different domestic and foreign survey results, higher education rankings do not contribute significantly and directly to the choice of institution of potential students, we must take their indirect effect into consideration.…
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The Story of the UnivPress Ranking Hungary

(H)UnivPress Ranking, History
2000, October-November: The first Hungarian student ranking survey 2001, autumn: Discussion with the members of the Conference of Hungarian Rectors 2001, December: The first Hungarian higher education ranking named UnivPress Ranking is published on the website of Universitas Press (www.unipresszo.hu). 2002, January: Daily News (Világgazdaság and Magyar Hírlap) also publish the results of the UnivPress Ranking. 2004, Spring: The first conference about Management Culture in Higher Education organized by Eötvös Loránd University and UnivPress Ranking Group (further: 2007, 2008) 2004, Autumn: The first ranking-book publication by the National Higher Education Information Centre and UnivPress Ranking Group, entitled Egyetemek mérlegen [Universities on the Scales] is published, ranking institutions in eight professional fields on the basis of over thirty aspects, building on research on student opinion. (further: 2005, 2006) 2005, March,: The…
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