{"id":223406,"date":"2025-10-15T03:09:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-of-university-ranking"},"modified":"2025-10-15T03:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T08:09:53","slug":"why-sorbonne-pulled-out-of-university-ranking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-of-university-ranking","title":{"rendered":"Why Sorbonne pulled out of university ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-sorbonne-pulled-out-of-university-ranking.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>France\u2019s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another. According to its president, most of these rankings are \u201cblack boxes\u201d whose methods not only raise ethical questions but also fail to cover the breadth and diversity of university contributions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy deciding to stop sending our data to THE, we are leaving this specific ranking, but our criticism of major international university rankings is global,\u201d Nathalie Drach-Temam, president of Sorbonne University, told Science|Business. \u201cThese rankings, built on selected quantitative indicators amalgamated into a single score, are not designed to evaluate research nor reflect the breadth and depth of the missions of research and higher education institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the UK-based Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) ranking to the US News and World Report (USWR), university rankings set out to measure how well a higher education institution performs and how its performance and quality compare to its peers. Prospective students turn to them for guidance, and governments and investors base their research funding decisions on them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France\u2019s Sorbonne University plans to leave the Times Higher Education (THE) Rankings, adding its name to a growing number of universities rejecting lists that play one institution off against another. According to its president, most of these rankings are \u201cblack boxes\u201d whose methods not only raise ethical questions but also fail to cover the breadth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}