College Rankings

world_rank institution country national_rank quality_of_education alumni_employment quality_of_faculty publications score
1 Harvard University USA 1 7 9 1 1 100
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology USA 2 9 17 3 12 91.67
3 Stanford University USA 3 17 11 5 4 89.5
4 University of Cambridge United Kingdom 1 10 24 4 16 86.17
5 California Institute of Technology USA 4 2 29 7 37 85.21
6 Princeton University USA 5 8 14 2 53 82.5
7 University of Oxford United Kingdom 2 13 28 9 15 82.34
8 Yale University USA 6 14 31 12 14 79.14
9 Columbia University USA 7 23 21 10 13 78.86
10 University of California, Berkeley USA 8 16 52 6 6 78.55
This table categorizes the top 10 universities by global rank. It includes the institution name, country where the university is located, the university's national rank, then the ranks for quality of eduction, alumni employment, quality of faculty, publications, and finally the overall score for the university.
This chart examines the relationship between the global rank for universities and their national rank. As the global rank goes down from 1 to 10, the national rank shows a simlar trend, with a few exceptions, most likely due to the majority of the universities being in the USA with the two drops accounting for the universities in the UK. For this dataset, highly ranked universities nationaly are also highly ranked globaly, top national universities in the USA and UK are also top globally.
This chart examines the relationships between world rank, quality of education, and quality of faculty. In this case, lower numbers are better as the correspond to a higher rank. For the most part, a higher global rank also corresponds to a higher rank in quality of education and quality of faculty. Aside from a few exceptions where either the rank for education quality or faculty quality is exceptionally high.
This chart examines the relationship between world rank and the rank for alumni employment. The trend follows that as the world rank for universities gets lower, so does the rank for alumni emplyment, meaning the higher a university is ranked globaly, the higher their rank is for alumni employment (alumni can get more and better jobs at top-ranked universities).

Conclusion

From the data we can see that national rank, quality of education, quality of faculty, and alumni employment all corrrelate to a university's global ranking. This information can be used to help students decide what university to attend and help determine what makes a good/highly ranked university. Students should look for high rankings in quality of education, quality of faculty, and alumni employment while also considering their university's national rank.

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