EduRoute University Ranking Methodology |
University ranking & university web ranking |
Currently Eduroute's interests are focused on studying and
evaluating university websites and not the performance of a university
since it is our belief that evaluating a university's performance is not
an easy task and one that includes many more different factors than the
ones being measured here. One of the crucial factors that prevent us
from actually giving any university a fair evaluation is the lack to
data provided by the university and the current conflict between the
different theories on evaluating a university's actual performance.
Evaluating university websites is of great interest to Eduroute since it
reflects the degree of investment and effort the university has put into
its website and in making its presence felt on the internet and the
academic community. It is also worth noting that the universities that
have good academic reputations are also ones that received top rankings
in our evaluation which proves that evaluating and ranking website can
be relied upon to reflect the quality of education received in any one
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Volume |
As the amount of information published on a university's website
increases the bigger the chance the site users have of being able to
familiarize themselves with the website, the university itself, finding
the comprehensive information of what they are searching for and of what
the university have to offer. It is also an indicator of the degree of
interaction between the website and its users whether they are students
or university professors. This in turn reflects the amount of support
and investment the university has put into providing as much information
as possible about the university on its website. The volume of
information published is measure by a set of commands that run on the
major search engines.
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Online scientific information |
University publications and their number are one of the major and
most important things that have to be taken into consideration when
ranking a university. This is an especially important aspect of ranking
since it attracts researchers and scholars looking for researches to the
website of a certain university. It also enriches the university's
scientific side on the internet.
Eduroute measures this aspect through the search engines which
specialize in publishing researches and scholarly articles and which
search a university's website for all available publications. |
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Links quantity |
Website links are one of the main factors which determine the success of
any website and the degree of its interaction with other related and
good websites. Here Eduroute measures the number of incoming links
whether these links are from academic or nonacademic websites. However
academic links are of higher importance since they reflect how connected
the university is with the online academic community and how respected
and appreciated it is from other academic institutions. |
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Quality of links and content |
This ranking factor mainly measures the quality of links and
factors. Sometimes some of the university's provide lots of content and
links on their website without taking into consideration the quality of
those links and the content published on the website. Some universities
also resort to buying links without taking into consideration whether or
not these links link to other related and renowned websites. Therefore
it was of great importance to measure this aspect of any
website in order to reflect the true size of a university's website on
the internet and to measure the degree in which the university is
concerned with the quality of content it provides on its website.
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Our Ranking Engine runs three times to get the result |
The university ranking engine passes through three main and important
stages which are:
1. Automatic evaluation which occurs three times a month before the
official ranking is announced.
2. Average Calculation between the results obtained for the automatic
evaluations to ensure the integrity and accuracy of the data.
3. Random manual testing which is done by taking a random 25% sample
from the top 1000 university and then a 5% sample from the rest of the
universities.
After these stages are completed the official ranking results are
announced on EduRoute.
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