QUESTION: UNIVERSITY RANKINGS We can rank universities by popularity and reputat

QUESTION: UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

We can rank universities by popularity and reputation (meaningless), by input criteria (assets, recruiting, and scope), by mission (arbitrary specialization), and by output criteria (career placement and income of graduates).

We know that universities largely sort, and don’t teach very much outside of each discipline’s basic rules of thumb.

But, I don’t really understand why, given any ranking, there are almost no universities outside the english speaking world in the top ranks, and those that are, are in the Lotharingian arc from England to Zurich.

Now, I suspect this is nothing other than the long term effect of anglo ratio-scientific empiricism, anglo imperialism, the resulting value of the english language, and the persistence of anglo wealth that results from all of the above.

But I would love to know if there is any research on this.

I’ve started with Sowell’s bibliography and worked out from there, but I can’t find an economic historian’s point of view on the matter.

Help appreciated.

Thanks.