Report on the global phenomenon of college and university rankings

Higher education officials from more than a dozen countries have crafted a set of principles designed to standardize what they call “the global phenomenon of college and university rankings.” The “Berlin Principles,” as the series of good practices are called, touch on the purposes and goals of such rankings, the design and weighting of the measures used, collection and processing of data, and presentation.

The principles were drafted at a meeting in Berlin this month convened by the UNESCO-European Center for Higher Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

http://www.ihep.org/Organization/Press/Berlin_Principles_Release.pdf