PS - É importante recordar que o famigerado QS World University Rankings é produzido pela firma Quacquarelli Symonds, que foi fundada por um Italiano espertalhaço de nome Nunzio Quacquarelli, quando andou a fazer o seu MBA, firma essa que ganha milhões a vender (aos incautos) estrelas e outros serviços de aconselhamento, sobre como subir nos rankings. Vide email de 2018, https://www.docdroid.net/uniDTYH/vice-reitor-docx onde comentei o facto da Universidade de Coimbra ter sido um dos pagantes desse caro serviço, apesar de muito ironicamente isso não ter impedido logo a seguir que essa universidade caisse no ranking Shanghai. Email esse que na altura até foi divulgado pelo Carlos Fiolhais no seu blog.
"This ranking is complete rubbish and nobody should place any credence in it.The results are based on an entirely flawed methodology that underweights the quality of research and overweights fluff"
"I will not discuss the QS ranking because the methodology is not sufficiently robust"
"There are far too many anomalies in the change scores of the various indices"
"The QS is based on a not large and not representative enough survey that means the results are biased towards certain countries"
"The QS ranking was also criticized for the low response rates of the review surveys and for a general lack of methodological transparency"
"the majority of the received questionnaires come from English-speaking countries, clearly favoring their universities"
"the statistic data adopted by QS Rankings should be further questioned."
"QS admits that a university may occasionally be nominated as excellent and ranked in a subject in which it “neither operates programmes nor research”