So there you go. Fairly scattered around a (least squares) line of best fit, with an R-squared of 0.7, but the UK is by far the most outlying country, ostensibly punching well above its weight. Other things to compare university rankings with are available.
Saturday 18 September 2010
Rank Outsiders
The latest round of international University rankings recently came by, so I thought I'd whip up a quick graph to look at how countries performed compared with their GDP. As usual, I didn't fancy doing anything complicated, so I just totalled up the scores for every university from each country, and plotted them against their GDP according to the IMF in 2009.
So there you go. Fairly scattered around a (least squares) line of best fit, with an R-squared of 0.7, but the UK is by far the most outlying country, ostensibly punching well above its weight. Other things to compare university rankings with are available.
So there you go. Fairly scattered around a (least squares) line of best fit, with an R-squared of 0.7, but the UK is by far the most outlying country, ostensibly punching well above its weight. Other things to compare university rankings with are available.
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