Open AccessCan Young Universities Achieve World-Class Status?
Author(s) -
Jamil Salmi
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
international higher education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4501
pISSN - 1084-0613
DOI - 10.6017/ihe.2013.70.8701
Subject(s) - excellence , ranking (information retrieval) , world class , maturity (psychological) , period (music) , class (philosophy) , political science , higher education , economic growth , economics , computer science , engineering , law , artificial intelligence , industrial engineering , physics , acoustics
What chance does a university stand to be among the best, if it does not have hundreds of years of experience? The top 10 universities in the latest Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities ranking (2011) were all founded before 1900, and two are more than eight centuries old. As is the case with good wines, academic excellence requires a wealth of expertise, careful care, and a long maturity period.