Quantity or quality: What matters more in ranking higher education institutions?

Current Science

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 158-162

  Radojicic, Zoran ^a   Jeremic, Veljko ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Higher education institutions; Quality indicators; Ranking; Statistical methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866524168     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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