Rating Teaching Quality: Rankings Methodology, what parents, students, employers, academics and governments who rely upon.

With high quality university education becoming more expensive and having an ever growing impact on career outcomes, making the right choice has never been more important. Potential students and their parents need all the help they can get, but they must dig beneath the rankings to understand the validity and relevance of each criteria and create their own personalised ranking, based on what matters to them.

Globalization is transforming the higher education landscape. The 2010 edition of the OECD’s Education at a Glance estimates that there are 3.3 million students at universities outside their home country, almost double the number of a decade ago. The world has changed and an increasing desire for comparative information has emerged