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THE Diagnostic Product overview
[email protected] THE Diagnostic – Overview THE Diagnostic is the easiest way for you to identify your Diagnose your high-level strengths and weaknesses relative to the World University Rankings’ top-performing universities. university’s strengths and weaknesses relative to the top See how your institution performs on 10 metrics linked to the THE World University Rankings. universities worldwide, with immediate impact on your brand- building potential and strategic The information on these pages is based on out best-effort estimates, using data supplied by your institution, of how you would perform planning agenda. on a metric basis against the total population of this year’s World University Ranking. It is intended to help you better understand how your institution performed relative to your peers and universities worldwide. Information on these pages should not be used in your external communications, except using THE Diagnostic Institutional Strengths, as laid out in our brand guidelines.
Comparing the performance of Solar University against this year’s total World University Ranking population gives the following results: How it works two top 10 per cent results, four top 25 per cent results and one top 50 per cent result in 2017.
THE Diagnostic helps universities that are not yet featured in the THE World University Rankings to assess their Top 10 per cent Top 25 per cent Top 50 per cent performance in comparison with this year’s overall ranking of over 1,000 institutions, on a metric-by-metric basis.
Where its score is comparable to the top 50 per cent Where its score is comparable to the top 10 per cent of institutions in the World University Rankings. of institutions in the World University Rankings. Where its score is comparable to the top 25 per cent The product indicates where your institution’s performance is equivalent to the top 50 per cent, 20 per cent, or 10 per of institutions in the World University Rankings. cent of world-ranked universities on 10 metrics directly aligned to the trusted World University Rankings. Your scores See how you (the black
Solar University is strongest in the metrics of teaching reputation (3rd decile) and percentage of dot) perform in a box- THE Diagnostic is part of the THE DataPoints family, our platform of performance analysis and benchmarking products. international students (2nd decile) and doctorate to bachelor awarded. plot distribution of all universities in the THE It is weakest in institutional income to academic staff (2nd decile) and doctorate awarded to academic staff and industry income to academic staff (2nd decile). World University Rankings Key features in our key metrics • Comparison of your university to the World University Rankings universe, on the same metrics used in the rankings, covering reputation, teaching performance, research performance and degree of internationalisation • Easy-to-understand takeaways explaining your institution’s strengths • Visually designed badges showcasing attributes where your institution’s data places it in the same performance category as the highest 50 per cent, 20 per cent or 10 per cent World University Rankings performers - awarded in- product and downloadable for use in print or elsewhere online • Brand-enhanced profile onTimes Higher Education’s academic and student online platform, which showcases your Diagnostic badges to 24 million unique visitors per annum • Additional insight into reputation performance of the World University Rankings universities by geographic region to help you understand the drivers of other universities’ results.
Your university profile – free withTHE Diagnostic THE Diagnostic is linked closely to our profiles product, which showcases your university’s educational and research offer through a university database searchable by approximately 24 million unique users of THE’s public website online.
The badges you earn by performing within the top 50 per cent, 20 per cent or 10 per cent of world-ranked universities on our key metrics are automatically showcased on your brand-enhanced profile.
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Further contextualise your performance in key subjects against geographical regions. See how your performance breaks See where institutions in your region typically receive votes from in the THE Academic Reputation Survey. down by subject on the 10 metrics, highlighting your subject-area strengths. Scores in these tables represent your performance relative to the THE World University Rankings universe in decile bands.
We do not provide detailed reputation analysis as part of THE Diagnostics. Chinese universities typically get reputational support from the following regions.
When we compare Solar University’s world performance to the performance of other North America universities it performs relatively better in doctorate to bachelor awarded, teaching reputation, students to academic staff, research income to academic staff, research reputation, industry income to academic staff, percentage of international students and percentage of international staff. It performs less well in doctorate awarded to academic staff and institutional income to academic staff.
When we compare Solar University’s world performance to the performance of other United Kingdom universities it performs relatively better in doctorate to bachelor awarded, teaching reputation, students to academic staff, research income to academic staff, research reputation, industry income to academic staff, percentage of international students and percentage of international staff. It performs less well in institutional income to academic staff.
arts and humanities worldwide Universities in your country are typically seen as being strong in engineering and physical sciences and less strong in arts and humanities, business and economics, clinical and health, computer science, worldwide life sciences and social sciences.
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Easily compare the distribution of votes your institution received in the THE Academic Reputation Survey with that of pre-defined peers
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Learn more about our key metrics and obtain a short, easy-to-use summary of how your institution compares with the Brand-enhanced profile onTimes Higher Education’s academic and student online platform, which showcases your rest of the world ranking. Diagnostic badges to 24 million unique visitors per annum.
Your THE Diagnostic Institutional Strengths
Your performance badges will feature on your enhanced profile and can be downloaded in various formats for use in your print and digital marketing material
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Al-Farabi Kazakh National University Macquarie University University of Calgary Amity University Manipal University University of Canberra Amrita University Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Cyprus Australian Catholic University Massey University University of East Anglia Australian National University McMaster University University of Essex Auckland University of Technology Monash University University of Glasgow Botho University Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology University of Groningen Brunel University London Nanyang Technological University University of Helsinki Central Queensland University National and Kapodistrian University of Athens University of Hong Kong CETYS University National Research Nuclear University MEPhI University of Liverpool Chalmers University of Technology National Taiwan Normal University University of Macau Chaoyang University of Technology National University of Science and Technology (MISIS) University of Melbourne Charles Darwin University National University of Singapore University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chinese University of Hong Kong Newcastle University University of New South Wales Covenant University Northwestern University University of Newcastle Cyprus University of Technology NOVA University of Lisbon University of Portsmouth Czech University of Life Sciences Prague Nove de Julho University University Of Queensland East China Normal University Örebro University University of Seville Emory University Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University University of South Australia Ewha Womans University PSL Research University Paris University of Southern California Federico Santa María Technical University Qatar University University of Southern Queensland Higher School of Economics, National Research University Queen Mary University of London University of Surrey Hong Kong Polytechnic University Saint Petersburg State University University of Sydney Huazhong University of Science and Technology Shantou University University of Taipei Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University Soas, University of London University of Tasmania Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education Sun Yat-sen University University of Technology, Sydney Johns Hopkins University Taipei Medical University University of Texas at San Antonio Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Tokai University University of the Sunshine Coast (KAIST) Tomsk Polytechnic University University of the Witwatersrand Kindai University Toyo University Victoria University King Abdulaziz University Trinity College Dublin Victoria University of Wellington La Trobe University Tsinghua University Yonsei University LMU Munich Tsukuba University Zhejiang University
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