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MEXICO. At least three companies have posted university rankings nationally in 2009: the newspapers Reforma and El Universal, and Reader's Digest Reader's Digest.
exercise is that these companies make every year and have already become a tradition.
school students who are entering college, parents and even their own higher education institutions (HEIs), hope and continue with growing interest the publication of these rankings, since they have become powerful tools enable young people to have more information and better decision points for choosing a university.
Each of these rankings use different methodologies to establish what are the best universities. For example, El Universal considers 20 universities in general classification, while the University Guide Reader's Digest publishes a ranking of the top 100 universities. Reform, for its part, does not make a general ranking, but has a ranking of the best universities but by degrees, and in each the number considered is variable, since in some cases were considered only eight universities and other cases to 20.
is important to highlight some points regarding the rankings discussed here:
1) In the three years analyzed here, only the College Guide 2009 Selections can be regarded as a national ranking, since for processing regarded universities in 32 states in the country. For its part, El Universal only considered to universities located in seven states, while the newspaper Reforma only took into account for its exercise to the higher education institutions of the Federal District and its metropolitan area. Therefore, the latter two are, in fact, regional rankings.
2) For the development of the three rankings discussed here, was used primarily to survey method as an essential tool to generate the respective classifications. That is, in reality it is perception-based assessments, not on what we call "hard data" primarily quantitative. Only
supplement "09 Best Colleges" the newspaper El Universal, considered as a relevant factor (60% of the calculation of the ranking) a series of such data, such as institutional accreditation, research, teaching, library services and technology. However, it is also evident the great weight given to factors measured by perception surveys.
3) The three classifications considered the survey results to employers as one of the overriding factors classification of universities. Even the "Best Universities Survey 2009," the newspaper Reforma, classification based entirely main university in the survey of employers, not including other factors.
Thus, these rankings give significant weight to the views of businesses and public sector organizations regarding the quality of universities, although not specifically responding to an academic approach, but rather that of the degree ease of graduates from various institutions and careers, to get a job.
4) To determine the weighting values and for supervision of all its universities ranking exercise, the newspaper El Universal turned to the figure of an Advisory Board consisting of professors and researchers from 16 institutions of higher education in the country and a specialized consulting firm. It is the only one of the three rankings that saw the use of a mechanism of this kind.
5) All rankings discussed a classification of colleges and careers, for example, mention which schools were the best in Economics, Law or Industrial Engineering. But only Universal and Selections The rankings show a general nature, stating what were the mejores 20 universidades en el primer caso, y las mejores 100, en el segundo.
6) Las encuestas a profesores y de alumnos fueron parte fundamental del ranking de Selecciones, quien consideró a éstas en la ponderación de su ranking general.
Reforma utilizó también el dato, pero no lo integró a su ranking principal de carreras universitarias, sino que construyó otras clasificaciones diferentes donde se midieron factores como orgullo universitario, satisfacción con el servicio de bibliotecas, entre otros.
El Universal, por su parte, consideró la evaluación de profesores para realizar un “ranking de profesores”, pero no tomó en cuenta la opinión of students.
then presents a more detailed description of the results and methodology of each of these rankings:
I) College Guide 2009, SELECTIONS FROM READER'S DIGEST
Overall Ranking
Top 10 best universities in the country, according to the classification used for this publication, are:
1) National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
2) Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
3) National Polytechnic Institute (IPN)
4) Universidad Iberoamericana (UIA)
5) Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
6) University of Anahuac
7) Universidad del Valle de Mexico (UVM)
8) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)
9) Universidad de Guadalajara (University of Guadalajara)
10) Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (UANL)
2009 University Guide Selections considered a total of 10 areas of study: Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Sciences, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Education, Arts, Construction, Communication and Marketing, Economics and Management Science, and Technology. Methodology
For this ranking interviews were conducted in 32 Mexican states, which were classified into 5 regions: Pacific, North, Bajio, Central, and Southeast Valley. The ranking is entirely based on these interviews, conducted by Ipsos. There were a total of 9.289 interviews divided as follows: 1.313
teacher interviews.
interviews
4.056 3.680
Students Alumni interviews and 240 interviews
human resource directors and / or Head Hunters.
For students, alumni and teachers, interviews were online and through other electronic processes. For the business community (human resources and Head Hunters), telephone interviews were used. The interviews were applied from 15 December 2008 to February 9, 2009.
calculation algorithm was used to determine finally the university ranking was based on a weighting for each response obtained from the questionnaires, each of the three segments evaluated. Processing and data analysis, we used the SPSS computer statistical program.
II) BEST COLLEGES SURVEY 2009, REFORM
The development of this ranking was carried out by means of a survey conducted by the Research Department itself newspaper from various universities in the Federal District and the Metropolitan Area, which were selected based on the statistical yearbook published by the ANUIES. Therefore, in reality, this ranking is not national in scope. Reformation
a ranking general, but a classification by race, so that a comparison between institutions, but between programs of study.
were taken into account 14 of the 20 races in greater demand in the metropolitan area: Law, Administration, Accounting, Systems Engineering, Psychology, Systems, Medical, Communication, Architecture, Industrial Engineering, Marketing, Economics, International Relations and Civil Engineering. Additionally, due to the high demand which has in recent years, was also included Mechatronics Engineering.
Main results of the ranking
Best Universities Ranking 2009 reform gave the following results. Here is the name of each university evaluated, and the name of the institution that took first place in it:
ADMINISTRATION
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) and Universidad La Salle (tie)
ARCHITECTURE
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM CU)
University COMMUNICATION Iberoamericana (UIA DF)
ACCOUNTING
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
RIGHT
Escuela Libre de Derecho (ELD DF)
ECONOMY
Research and Teaching in Economics (CIDE)
CIVIL ENGINEERING
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM CU)
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Universidad Panamericana (UP )
Mechatronics Engineering
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Campus Santa Fe)
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Campus Santa Fe)
MEDICINE
Universidad La Salle
MARKETING
Tecnológico de Monterrey (Campus Mexico City)
PSYCHOLOGY
AC University of the Americas (UDLA DF)
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
DEGREE IN SYSTEMS
National Polytechnic Institute UPIICSA
Methodology
The main component to calculate the position of universities in this edition of The Best Colleges 2009, was a survey of employers, ie, a sample of companies, agencies and organizations that hire graduates from the evaluated. The interview was conducted at 1.163 employers in private companies and public bodies, including the October 9, 2008 and January 28, 2009. The interviews were conducted by telephone. Each employer assessed to graduates of participating universities on a scale from zero to 10 in the following areas:
1 .- Preparation and knowledge.
2 .- capacity and performance.
3 .- Values \u200b\u200band ethics.
The position of universities in each of the university classifications, we calculated simple averages getting responses from employers under the three areas assessed, and these in turn, obtained a general average. The ranking considers to 64 educational institutions in the City and its metropolitan area.
III) TOP 09 COLLEGES OF THE UNIVERSAL
Ranking
general classification places the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the first place, followed by the Autonomous Metropolitan University (UAM) in the second place and the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM) in the third place, with a total score of 10, 9.40 and 9.32 points respectively.
The table top 10 is:
1) National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
2) Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM)
3) Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico (ITAM)
4) Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Mexico (UAEMEX)
5) Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL)
6) University and Guadalajara (UdeG)
7) Institute Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Occidente (ITESO)
8) National Polytechnic Institute (IPN)
9) Universidad Anahuac Mexico Norte
10) Instituto Tecnológico de Toluca
Academic Assessment
1) UNAM
2) IPN
3) ITAM
4) UAM
5) UDLAP
Employers
Assessment
1) UNAM
2) UAEMEX
3) ITAM
4) IPN
5) ITESO
Methodology
To achieve this ranking, El Universal contacted all education institutions Superior (IES) of the DF, Morelos, Queretaro, Puebla, Jalisco, Estado de Mexico and Nuevo Leon that appeared on Form 911 of the Public Education Secretariat (SEP) for the 2006/2007 cycle, inviting them to participate. In addition, HEIs should meet the following requirements:
- Provide a minimum of four programs in two areas of knowledge, of the six recognized by the National Association of Universities and Institutions of Higher Education (ANUIES).
- Have a minimum enrollment of one thousand undergraduates.
- Apply entrance exam.
- Having officially recognized in the programs they teach.
Ranking generally consists of three parts: quantitative information on the IES, which was provided by them (60%) employers surveyed (20%) and academic survey of selected HEIs (20%).
In the first category, information was requested on 12 variables to assess: institutional accreditation, the possibility of evaluating teachers by students, research, teaching, university outreach, library services and technology. The weight of each of these variables is different.
teacher evaluation was conducted via telephone, mail or in person. A total of 100 interviews, that included a sample of teachers from all participating universities in the rankings.
employers for the survey, a total of 1,344 interviews.
Source: E-consulta.com
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