According to The Times Higher Education website, the reputation rankings are based on the number of times a university is noted by respondents as being “the best” in its field of expertise, both for research and teaching. Each survey respondent could nominate up to 15 academic institutions and the two scores were weighed at a 2:1 ratio, giving more weight to research.
Of the respondents, 44 percent hailed from the Americas, 28 percent were based in Europe, and 25 percent were from the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions.
Spoiler alert: Harvard was selected the most often, ranking it as the most highly reputed university in the world. The rest of the institutions were ranked in relation to Harvard, so a school that received a 70 percent ranking in teaching reputation, received 70 percent of the number of nominations Harvard received.
Mark Sappenfield
Dear Reader,
About a year ago, I happened upon this statement about the Monitor in the Harvard Business Review – under the charming heading of “do things that don’t interest you”:
“Many things that end up” being meaningful, writes social scientist Joseph Grenny, “have come from conference workshops, articles, or online videos that began as a chore and ended with an insight. My work in Kenya, for example, was heavily influenced by a Christian Science Monitor article I had forced myself to read 10 years earlier. Sometimes, we call things ‘boring’ simply because they lie outside the box we are currently in.”
If you were to come up with a punchline to a joke about the Monitor, that would probably be it. We’re seen as being global, fair, insightful, and perhaps a bit too earnest. We’re the bran muffin of journalism.
But you know what? We change lives. And I’m going to argue that we change lives precisely because we force open that too-small box that most human beings think they live in.
The Monitor is a peculiar little publication that’s hard for the world to figure out. We’re run by a church, but we’re not only for church members and we’re not about converting people. We’re known as being fair even as the world becomes as polarized as at any time since the newspaper’s founding in 1908.
We have a mission beyond circulation, we want to bridge divides. We’re about kicking down the door of thought everywhere and saying, “You are bigger and more capable than you realize. And we can prove it.”
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