Global geographies of higher education: The perspective of world university rankings

Geoforum

Volumn 46, Issue , 2013, Pages 45-59

  Jöns, Heike ^a   Hoyler, Michael ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Globalization; Higher education; Internationalization; Knowledge based economy; Universities; World university rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872371953     PISSN: 00167185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2012.12.014     Document Type: Article

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