{"id":3893,"date":"2013-10-16T23:44:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T23:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2017-06-06T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T17:05:44","slug":"unequal-elite-the-the-world-university-rankings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=3893","title":{"rendered":"World University Rankings 2013\/14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This feature was compiled in collaboration with Phil Baty of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Times Higher Education<\/a> and first appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/2013-14\/world-ranking\/analysis\/fresh-view-of-pale-blue-dot\" target=\"_blank\">World University Rankings 2013-2014<\/a>. In the following blog post we put the rankings results into a human and economic perspective (modified version from the original article). The two maps show the top 200 Universities from the Ranking displayed on two different kinds of gridded cartograms:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/THErankings2013-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/THErankings2013-14_tn.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/THErankings2013-14.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><span>(click for larger version)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->It is clear that the world\u2019s best universities are overwhelmingly concentrated in the developed world (with most of the top 200 found in North America and Western Europe), but these two heavily distorted world maps are designed to put the results of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-14 into a clearer global context.<br \/>\nThe images \u2013 known as gridded cartogram transformations \u2013 look at the top performing universities in relation to the size of each country\u2019s population (see the top map on the image above) and economic productivity measured by gross domestic product (see the bottom map on the image above). The maps put the rankings into the perspective of the human and economic shapes of the world.<br \/>\nConsider the population map. The land area is resized so that each space in the map relates to an equal number of people no matter where you look. Sparsely populated spaces shrink in size, highly populated areas expand, while the underlying grid ensures that the geographic location of each area is preserved. This allows us accurately to map the locations of the top 200 universities into these transformed spaces.<br \/>\nOn this map, the pink circles represent THE\u2019s world-ranked institutions. The largest circles represent universities in the top 25, while the smallest represent those ranked from 151st to 200th.<br \/>\nIn the GDP map, the land area is resized so that each space relates to an equal amount of output, so less economically active areas (as measured by GDP, not by people\u2019s real activity) shrink. Here, the blue circles represent THE\u2019s world-ranked institutions but according to their overall scores (not their rankings positions, as with the population map). The largest blue circles represent those institutions scoring between 90 and 100 points overall, with the smallest representing those scoring under 50 points.<br \/>\nIn the wealthy parts of the world, we see a more even distribution of the top academic institutions, while at the same time the GDP map shows that there are some more clustered patterns even in the \u2018developed\u2019 world when it comes to their locations in relation to economically active spaces.<br \/>\nHuge global inequality becomes highly visible in these maps, as they do not show land area, but rather where people live and work \u2013 and where they are more excluded from access to \u2018top\u2019 education, even in the emerging economies and most populated countries of China and India.<\/p>\n<p><em>The content on this page has been created by Benjamin D. Hennig and Phil Baty and is property of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeshighereducation.co.uk\/world-university-rankings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Times Higher Education<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This feature was compiled in collaboration with Phil Baty of Times Higher Education and first appeared in the World University Rankings 2013-2014. In the following blog post we put the rankings results into a human and economic perspective (modified version &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=3893\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[314,15,24,30,36,107,48,320,313],"class_list":["post-3893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maps","tag-academia","tag-cartogram","tag-education","tag-gdp","tag-gridded-cartogram","tag-inequality","tag-population","tag-the","tag-universities"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>World University Rankings 2013\/14 - Views of the World<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viewsoftheworld.net\/?p=3893\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"World University Rankings 2013\/14 - Views of the World\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This feature was compiled in collaboration with Phil Baty of Times Higher Education and first appeared in the World University Rankings 2013-2014. 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