Published rankings and top tens of all sorts seem to be increasingly common - and many now go beyond best films or books to look at all aspects of people's lives. Forbes magazine, for example, runs rankings that range from the best places to get ahead, to the best cities for recent college graduates or the best places for businesses and careers. Higher education is one of the major areas ranked. Numerous organizations draw up tables on universities and graduate programmes, although they tend to use varying criteria in their assessments. On page 1024 we analyse some popular rankings schemes for graduate programmes, examine their methodology and reveal some of the suggestions being made for improvement.
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