連載：応用ランキング学事始め　第5回：大学ランキング

抄録

The Higher Education Rankings or University rankings, we often see them in our daily lives. In this article, at first, we classify those rankings into three categories - publisher rankings, deviation value rankings, and global rankings - based on the users, creators, and target universities of rankings. Then we analyze their characteristics. Particularly, we compare the world's three major global rankings, and analyze the indicators used to create the rankings, identifying issues. After that, as an application of ranking creating process, we consider and discuss the under going selection for International Excellence Research Universities as a ranking making procedure, and point out five problems.