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A ranking to showcase your educational impact
The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings is a pioneering ranking of US colleges and universities that puts student success and learning – based on 100,000 current student voices – at its heart. Developed in partnership with US experts and universities, the ranking captures four key areas of performance: the resources available to support education at your institution, the ability of your degree programmes and teaching to stimulate learning, the diversity and inclusiveness of your environment, and the propensity of your institution to contribute to students’ success.
With data from public datasets combined with proprietary surveys of student and academic opinion, and using a refreshing value-added approach to measuring student outcomes, the ranking is the best public, integrated measure for communicating your educational impact.
A new way to monitor student experience
Almost 20 per cent of the WSJ/THE College Ranking relies on a powerful student survey dataset – the first annual THE Student Survey, encompassing 100,000 student responses across 1,111 universities – and we anticipate that 2017 will provide us with an even more comprehensive sample.
The survey captures key milestones in a student’s educational journey with their institution, covering motivation, engagement with learning, career impact, and satisfaction and value.
The survey strategy, which uses independent messaging and automated verification and sample management technology, changes the culture of getting and giving feedback on campus, creating a student community that provides robust and comparable information about institutions over the long term.
A platform with the insights to help you grow
Times Higher Education’s flagship performance analysis and benchmarking platform, THEDataPoints, uses THE’s data to help you identify and communicate institutional strengths and weaknesses in a credible, comparable way. Our analytical tools, focused on the THE Student Survey, help you see patterns in student engagement on campus and relative to other universities, with an unparalleled breadth of benchmarking capabilities. Our analyses of your academic reputation, drawing from the THE Reputation Survey, offer a unique insight into your positioning among academic peers.
Our methodology at a glance
RESOURCES
ENGAGEMENT
OUTCOMES
ENVIRONMENT
Variable
Finance per student
Faculty per student
Papers per faculty
Student engagement
Student recommendation
Student interaction
Subject breadth
Graduate salary (Value-added)
Graduation rate
Reputation
Debt repayment (Value-added)
Student diversity
Faculty diversity
International student %
Student inclusion
Description
Spend on instruction and on academic support services, adjusted for local price index
FTE staff per student
Papers per FTE staff
Survey questions (4)
Survey questions (1)
Survey questions (2)
Number of programmes offered
Graduate salary (10-year median), controlling for pre-
existing characteristics
Six-year graduation rate, degree-seeking students
Votes (US academics)
Average three-year loan repayment rate, controlling for
pre-existing characteristics
Ethnic mix of students
Ethnic mix of faculty
% resident alien students
% first generation, % Pell Grant
Source
IPEDs, BEA
IPEDs
Elsevier Scopus, IPEDs
THE Student Survey
THE Student Survey
THE Student Survey
IPEDs
CSC, IPEDs, BEA
IPEDs
THE Reputation Survey
CSC*, IPEDs, BEA
IPEDs
IPEDs
IPEDs
CSC, IPEDs
Metric weight
11
11
8
7
6
4
3
12
11
10
7
3
3
2
2
Pillar weight
30
20
40
10
WSJ/THE College Rankings data table
CSC = College Scorecard BEA = Bureau of Economic Analysis IPEDS = Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System *Source TBC for 2017-18
Sources Metrics Pillars Ranking
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Our survey data Your institutional dashboard
The 2016 THE Student Survey covered more than 100,000 students across 1,111 colleges and universities, providing rich insight into student engagement and motivation across the US.
The survey instrument’s 12 core questions capture four areas of interest for US institutions, policymakers, students and the wider educational community, alongside free text for positive and negative feedback:
• Why students choose to go into higher education• The level of students’ engagement with their institution, comprising six measures of engagement with learning
– interaction with faculty, collaborative learning, connection and reflection among concepts, application of learning, developing critical thinking and being challenged – and one measure of social engagement on campus
• Students’ perception of the impact on their future from attending their institution, with one measure of perceived career impact and one measure of perceived value for money
• Two holistic measures of ultimate satisfaction and benefit: willingness to recommend the university (which can be formulated as Net Promoter Score), and if they would choose that institution again.
Nine demographic and screening questions cover student degree status on campus, subject focus of studies, learning delivery method, academic level and year of entry, gender, nationality, origin status (in-state, out-of-state, international) and year of birth.
How it worksTHEDataPoints is a single, cloud-based, interactive platform for your institution’s data, accessible from anywhere and online. For WSJ/THE College Rankings Dashboard customers, THEDataPoints contains all core modules required to help you get the most from the rankings.
Key features • Built on the THE global database of more than three million proprietary data points, and more than 2,000
institutions, growing monthly and annually• Framed by THE performance indicators, including rankings and other critical measures of performance, with
credibility globally• Showcases both stand-alone and comparative performance, helping you identify strengths and weaknesses• Immediate takeaways for strategic planning, further internal analysis, or to frame a funding or marketing case.
Institutions featured in the WSJ/THE College Rankings For US institutions featured in the WSJ/THE College Rankings, THEDataPoints is the only way to truly understand your position, identify relative strengths for immediate use in institutional positioning, and/or discover areas that you can invest in to better develop your educational impact as a whole.
Institutions yet to feature in the WSJ/THE College Rankings For institutions yet to feature in the rankings, and when linked to our THE Survey tool and program, THEDataPoints can be used to monitor and manage student engagement at your institution, in comparable, granular and insightful ways – leveraging a dataset with credibility towards third parties.
Impact onlearning
Motivation Impact oncareer
Satisfactionand value
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Your performance in detail
Easily communicate and assess your position in the WSJ/THE College Rankings with a one-page overview of your institution’s performance.
Compare yourself with other US institutions
Visualise US institutions by their ranking bands and size of student body in one of our interactive graphics.
The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education rankings are generated from four “pillars”, each of which represents a key area in teaching excellence: resources, engagement, outputs and environment. These, in turn, are made up of 15 key metrics. The pillars are weighted with the following proportions: resources, 30 per cent; engagement, 20 per cent: outputs, 40 per cent; and environment, 10 per cent. Please visit www.timeshighereducation.com/the-wall-street-journal-times-higher-education-college-rankings-2017-table-information for more information.
See your performance in a box and whisker chart against a distribution of all ranked US institutions
See where you rank, from state level to national levelSee the ranking methodology at a glance and download for further analysis
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Analysis by metrics
THE uses 15 carefully calibrated performance metrics to provide comprehensive and balanced comparisons. The methodology makes use of data provided by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, the College Scorecard, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, Elsevier and two THE-commissioned surveys gathering data on college reputation and student engagement. Diagnose root causes and identify opportunities by exploring your performance in these metrics against your peers and other benchmark groups.
Your performance v peers
• Identify strengths and weaknesses along our four performance pillars• Diagnose areas of significant performance differences versus your peers
Selected peers: Pluto UniversityMercury UniversitySaturn Institute of Asteroid BeltsMars and Titan UniversityEarth College of Life SciencesUranus UniversitySolar UniversityVenus College
Use the dropdown to update the comparison benchmark from the national to state level or other bespoke benchmarks
Toggle between scores and values then copy or download the table for further analysis
See the average scores in each of our metrics by state
Selected peers: Pluto UniversityMercury UniversitySaturn Institute of Asteroid BeltsMars and Titan UniversityEarth College of Life SciencesUranus UniversitySolar UniversityVenus College
Comparison of institutions across different aspects of their performance can reveal new insights and challenge commonly held assumptions
Pluto University
Mercury University
Saturn Institute of Asteroid Belts
Mars and Titan University
Earth College of Life Sciences
Uranus University
Solar University
Venus College
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Performance comparisonAnalysis by metrics
Compare your position and a variety of interactive benchmark distributions
Review your relative strengths and opportunities to improve against bespoke groups.
Selected peers: Pluto UniversityMercury UniversitySaturn Institute of Asteroid BeltsMars and Titan UniversityEarth College of Life SciencesUranus UniversitySolar UniversityVenus College
Compare different aspects of performance within the context of your peer group.
Easily digest your performance highlights in our key metrics
ACADEMIC REPUTATION
The chart highlights your underperformance in relation to the group in red and relative over-performance in green.
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