Does the Maclean's ranking matter?

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 231-242

  Kong, Qi ^a   Veall, Michael R ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANKING; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

EID: 27844461526     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3552439     Document Type: Article

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