When you hear the term world-class used to describe a university, I bet a lot of pre-conceived ideas pop into your head: ivory towers with a sprawling campus complete with a great lawn and a library established in historic times. And while some of those features might hold true, those are not the common attributes that define a world-class university.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cEvery country wants a world-class university. No country feels it can do without one. The problem is that no one knows what a world-class university is, and no one has figured out how to get one.\u201d <\/em><\/h3>\n
(Academe, January-February 2004.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In the 2011 publication, \u2018The Road to Academic Excellence\u2019, Philip Altbach and Jamil Salmi have described 3 criteria for defining a world class university. Clarivate Analytics takes that analysis further by then examining a further question: How can a university, in pursuit of world-class status, best marshal its resources and monitor its progress? In the Defining World Class Universities whitepaper<\/a>, Clarivate Analytics poises 3 strategic questions in the context of research analytics for universities to consider when setting strategies on route to becoming a world-class university: the role of governance, talent, and resources.<\/p>\n