World university rankings: What is in for top ten East Asian universities?

New Horizons in Education

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Soh, Kaycheng ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

East Asian; Factor analysis; University ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868542208     PISSN: 16831381     EISSN: 18183352     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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