# Project: The comparison World_University_Rankings.

Introduction

In this post, we will figure out how the universities are ranked by several investigations.

The data sets give us the name of the world rank universities, countries and several assessments 

Let's dig in! the reference: Kaggle.

Data sets

times = timesData.csv

shanghai = shanghaiData.csv

cwur = cwurData.csv

country = school_and_country_table.csv

fee = education_expenditure_supplementary_data.csv

attainment = educational_attainment_supplementary_data.csv

 

1. times = The Times Higher Education World University Ranking is widely regarded as one of the most influential and widely observed university measures.

2. shanghai = The Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is an equally influential ranking.

3. cwur = The Center for World University Rankings, is a less well know listing that comes from Saudi Arabia

4. country = universities and countries

5. fee = expenditrue type.

6. attainment = national educational attainment

 

 

Times

Shanghai

cwur

country

fee

attainment

EDA

Visualization

 

The distribution of the countries.

 

Research, Total score, teaching are correlated when ranking.

On the other hand, income, international, the number of students are not important features in order to rank

We can tell the uni is assessed by teaching, research, citations, total score etc...

The average distribution of several assessments.

 

The correlation between world rank and teaching in South Korea 2014 ~ 2016

Top 5 universities in 2016 teaching and research scores.

 

The correlation between world rank and teaching in the USA 2014 ~ 2016

Ranking the universities is quite impacted by teaching score.

 

The distribution of the ranking by the top 15 countries in 2016.

etc..

• The major universities have more international students than others. The average ratio of international students in major uni is nearly 30%. however, only 11% of international students are in minor uni. And the average of the number of students in major uni is nearly 16,000 and around 24,000, students go to minor uni.

 

 

Preprocessing

Renamed 'USA' to 'United States of America'

 

 

 

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