A tale of two cities’ university rankings: comparing Hong Kong and Singapore

Higher Education

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 773-787

  Soh, Kay Cheng ^a   Ho, Kwok Keung ^b  

^a Lingnan University ^*  (Singapore)

^b LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Hong Kong and Singapore; Indicators; Tertiary education; University ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84912032051     PISSN: 00181560     EISSN: 1573174X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10734-014-9743-z     Document Type: Article

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