China, South Africa kick some emerging economy butts https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/emerging-economies-university-rankings#!/page/0/length/25/sort_by/rank/sort_order/asc/cols/stats
What criteria are they using for "emerging economy"? Qatar has the highest GDP per capita in the world!
Well, I think the methodology is built into the article. Clearly it's ok to disagree. In the end all these ranking systems come down to methodology.
I think the University of the West Indies is a great Institution. I don’t know of any dull or marginal students/graduates from that institution. It does not get the recognition that it deserves because it is a third world. Maybe that is one of the reasons why I am hesitant to demean other countries’ public universities. I have been a star student in first countries university but for I know that I would have been below average in UWI.