Celebration is in accordance; we can add another bullet point to the list of our achievements. Beside being the #1 university in the Midwest, Creighton has gained the title of one of the top universities in the world.
Creighton’s world rank fits into the 301-350 category, according to Times Higher Education (THE).
Sponsored by the Thomson Reuters Corporation, the Times Higher Education World university rankings for the 2012-2013 school year judges universities, on a global level, based upon how they fulfill their chief and principal mission, or central purpose of existence. There is a focus on four aspects of college and university life: they are “teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook” states Reuters. In order to provide readers with a genuine, comprehensive and impartial comparison, the ranking uses 13 different criterions that are factored into the six main categories that schools are given a rank based on. In addition to an overall score, the 5 subcategories include teaching, international outlook, industry outcome, research and citations.
In order to vouch for their credibility, Reuters says in their statement that the information available is “trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.”
While the overall score is withheld by THE, the teaching category scored a 42.4 with a 26.0 score for international outlook. The industry income category indicated, “no data supplied”, while research achieved 9.3 and the higher score of 61.0 was assigned to the “citations” category. It was also mentioned that “more than 60,000 Creighton alumni live in 89 countries: the largest numbers that reside outside the US are based in Canada, Japan and Malaysia.”
After ranking the first 200 universities, the remaining ranks are grouped together initially in groups of 25, and from the 300th rank onwards, in groups of 50.
“It’s an important achievement, but there is still more room for improvement,” said Sally Campbell, junior at Creighton University.
Maeve Cardwell, freshman at Creighton, harbored a different opinion. “Considering how many schools there are internationally, having a teaching staff that is rated that high, makes me believe that my intellect is in good hands. I feel like my education is being shaped and molded by some impressive individuals,” said Cardwell.
Written by: Sangamithra Sathian