Published by Times Higher Education (THE) magazine, this prestigious international review of the world's top 5,000 universities is the most comprehensive undertaken.
NetConstruct designed and developed the multilingual web-based data collection platform under a contract for Thomson Reuters, the world’s leading research data organisation.
The platform enables the best universities across the globe to input detailed survey data for the rankings. The survey is available in nine languages: Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Brazilian and European Portuguese, English and Arabic.
One of the critical success factors for this comprehensive survey is the ‘user experience’ and ‘quality of data input’. Our designers created an intuitive new online data capture format that has made the forms easy to fill in and, as a result, achieve high levels of survey completion and user satisfaction.
Our software development has to handle the complexities of the information submitted too. It employs 13 separate performance indicators designed to capture the full range of university activities, from teaching to research to knowledge transfer.
“We are confident that the 2010-2011 world university rankings represent the most accurate picture of global higher education we have ever produced.”
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Phil Baty is the editor of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. In the run up to publication of the 2011 rankings he said:
“It is testament to the level of respect for the rankings’ methodology, developed in open consultation with the sector, that the database which allows THE to build the tables – Thomson Reuters’ Global Institutional Profiles Project – is bigger than ever, with well over 100 new names in the mix this year.
“For example, for 2011-12 we welcome to the project big names such as the US’ University of Texas at Austin; the Chinese University of Hong Kong; China’s Fudan University; the University of Western Australia; Israel’s Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Belgium’s Université Catholique de Louvain.
"We are confident that the 2010-2011 world university rankings represent the most accurate picture of global higher education we have ever produced."