However, in the most recent rankings made by 4International Colleges & Universities – in which the University Of Cape Coast-UCC was placed 5th in the Top 10 Universities In Ghana brought many surprises to Ghanaians.
One thing i got to realized after my research about how the rankings was made was that, the rankings was not based on Academics, Infrastructures, Games, etc. or probably the impacts of the school to the society BUT was based on WEB RANKINGS.
Meaning how good your schools website is and how far it reaches the World.
That's why the rankings is known as web ranking.
READ: UCC drops to fifth position in the latest University rankings
Methodology, Universities and Colleges are ranked by our exclusive 4icu.org University Web Ranking. The ranking has been published since May 2005.
Since then the ranking methodology has been periodically fine-tuned in order to provide better results.The current ranking is based upon an algorithm including four unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from three different search engines:*.Google Page Rank*.Alexa Traffic Rank*.Majestic SeoReferring Subnets *.Majestic SeoTrust FlowWeb metrics data are collected on the same week to minimize temporal fluctuations and maximize comparibility.
Further investigation and a review of Alexa Traffic Rank data is carried out for universities adopting a subdomain(highly not recommended) as their official institutional home page.Once filtered (outliers) and reviewed (subdomains), web metrics data are normalised to a scale of 0 to 100 taking into consideration the logarithmic nature in which both the GooglePage Rank and the Alexa Traffic Rank are expressed. The three normalised values are aggregated based on a weighted average algorithm which generates the final score and web ranking. The exact formula adopted to aggregate the three web metrics is not disclosed for copyright reasons and to minimise attempts of manipulation from university webmasters in order to achieve better rankings.
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The same philosophy is adopted by Google with regards to their search engine ranking algorithm. Being the 4icu.org University Web Ranking a non-academic ranking, the need for ranking methodology transparency and the ability of testing and reproducing the results, as suggested by the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, is less stringent than for academic rankings. The aim of this website is to provide an approximate popularity ranking of world Universities and Colleges based upon the popularity of their websites.
This is intended to help international students and academic staff to understand how popular a specific University/College is in a foreign country.We do not claim - by any means - to rank organisations or their programs, by the quality of education or level of services provided.
NOTE:
The4icu.org University Web Ranking is not an academic ranking and should not be adopted as the main criteria for selecting a higher education organization where to study.
Don't be soo happy your University came first and don't be disturbed your University came last in the Rankings. Success in life Is not about the school, is about YOU.
Written by: Michael A. Djan(TINTO)
Email: michael_djan100@yahoo.com
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