The international ranking of the higher education institution: the quality of education or judgmental dominance? | Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Ekonomika – Tomsk State University Journal of Economics. 2015. № 4(32).

The international ranking of the higher education institution: the quality of education or judgmental dominance?

What are the best world universities rankings? How do they work? Do they ensure that an institution can attract more students and financial support? Will the cities, where universities are located, get additional economic and social benefits related to jobs and taxes or will they lead to additional promotion of universities that are on a particular ranking, thus enhancing competitiveness of one institution compared to others. This paper addresses the problem of education quality assessment by means of international higher education institutions rankings. The objective of the paper is to determine whether or not higher education institutions rankings can serve as a tool for assessing the quality of education and whether the implemented set of criteria for including on a ranking reflects the concept of "best university". With this in mind, the author reviews the criteria, which are used for education quality assessment by different rankings; defines the concept of "best university"; presents criteria options for measuring the "quality" of higher education; determines whether the leading higher education institutions meet the criteria for "best universities" and whether rankings take into account the actual quality of education. The author analyzes the globally recognized rankings of the best universities, which make it possible to conclude that rankings can be considered as objective indicators of quality of higher education and the criteria for including a university on a ranking reflect concept of "the best university". The author also conducts a study of Tomsk higher education institutions graduates and determines how rankings are used by education institutions, entrants and their parents. Finally, the author substantiates the need for presence of Russian universities on international rankings due to implementation of the concept of export of Russian educational services for the period 2011-2020.

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качество образования, глобальные рейтинги вузов, научная деятельность университета, конкурентоспособность вузов, концепция экспорта образовательных услуг РФ, Quality of education, Global rankings of higher education institutions, Scientific activity of university, Competitiveness of higher education institutions, Concept of export of the Russian educational services

Authors

Name	Organization	E-mail
Yalovega Irina E.	Tomsk Polytechnic University	yalovegairina@mail.ru

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