I don’t want to get into a row with David Blanchflower,who takes issue with the QS University Ranking results 2011 and have no argument with his assertion that Cambridge is not the best University in the World, but unless the U. of Shanghai (UoS) have revised their methodology since I last looked at it while on the EU’s NESSI steering committee, in early 2009 , they
- overemphasise Science (& specifically Medicine)
- overemphasise US publication (& hence English language research)
- have no teaching quality metric ( apart from alumni citations)