The ATAR and Results Build Up Thread!

[LFTM]

If i dont get 25, i'll have to go deakin.

At least you can say that you didn't go to VU!


(I feel like giving them a lot of crap today)

lol is VU better than ACU?

[pi]

If i dont get 25, i'll have to go deakin.

At least you can say that you didn't go to VU!


(I feel like giving them a lot of crap today)

lol is VU better than ACU?

Yes: as of 2007 (by one place mind you), neither featured in the 2009 rankings (says a lot about both 'unis')

http://www.australian-universities.com/rankings/

[chrisjb]

http://www.australian-universities.com/rankings/

Melbourne Uni has been on the slide over the past three years.

[pi]

http://www.australian-universities.com/rankings/

Melbourne Uni has been on the slide over the past three years.

Ever since they got rid of under-grad med...

[pirocan1]

How do they work out those rankings? What is it based on?

[eeps]

The 2010-11 Times Higher Education World University Rankings have been compiled with these limitations very much in mind.

The tables' methodology was determined only after 10 months of detailed consultation with leading experts in global higher education: more than 50 senior figures across every continent provided extensive feedback on our plans, amounting to more than 250 pages of commentary. The wider university community also had its say via more than 300 postings on our website.

So, despite the inherent limitations, these tables represent the most comprehensive and sophisticated exercise ever undertaken to provide transparent, rigorous and genuinely meaningful global-performance comparisons for use by university faculty, strategic leaders, policymakers and prospective students.

The aim over the past 10 months has been to create a genuinely useful tool for the global higher education community and beyond, not just an annual headline-driven curiosity.

So what is the result of perhaps the largest consultation exercise ever undertaken to produce world university rankings?

The tables use 13 separate indicators (up from just six under our old system) designed to capture a broad range of activities, from teaching and research to knowledge transfer.

These elements are brought together into five categories:

Teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the final ranking score)
Research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
Citations — research influence (worth 32.5 per cent)
Industry income — innovation (worth just 2.5 per cent)
International mix — staff and students (worth 5 per cent)

The weightings for the five categories, and the 13 indicators within them, vary considerably. High weightings are given where consultation has shown unmistakable enthusiasm for the indicator as a valuable proxy and clear confidence in the data we have. Lower weightings are employed where confidence in the data or the usefulness of the indicator is less pronounced.

That's what it says on on Times Higher Education World University Rankings website.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2010-2011/analysis-methodology.html

[_henwee]

**Reads the first few words**
Yep. Looks solid enough.

[chansthename]

except Monash fell behind, when I was last at Melbourne they were emphasising the ranking since Monash was so far behind.

[MuggedByReality]

Sounds like everyone is using justifying the ATAR results to justify getting drunk after getting drunk for completing VCE...

What's wrong with that exactly?

bibacity

ebriosity

[stonecold]

It's so damn close!!! Cannot stop thinking about it...  or sleep for that matter

[98.40_for_sure]

It's so damn close!!! Cannot stop thinking about it...  or sleep for that matter

You seemed to sleep just fine the other night, left me bored and alone

[mandy]

It's so damn close!!! Cannot stop thinking about it...  or sleep for that matter

I can't stop thinking about it either.. getting more and more scared everyday. Also, it feels like my predicted atar goes down as days pass

[stonecold]

It's so damn close!!! Cannot stop thinking about it...  or sleep for that matter

You seemed to sleep just fine the other night, left me bored and alone

Pfft night.  It was practically morning haha!

[stonecold]

It's so damn close!!! Cannot stop thinking about it...  or sleep for that matter

I can't stop thinking about it either.. getting more and more scared everyday. Also, it feels like my predicted atar goes down as days pass

I know.  I keep thinking the worse, putting it into the ATAR calculator, and it just keeps going down!!

[mandy]

It's so damn close!!! Cannot stop thinking about it...  or sleep for that matter

I can't stop thinking about it either.. getting more and more scared everyday. Also, it feels like my predicted atar goes down as days pass

I know.  I keep thinking the worse, putting it into the ATAR calculator, and it just keeps going down!!

Hahaha, I did that too! Just playing around with the ATAR calc.. I went as low as 20s for every subject LOL.