Understanding Rankings: What a Planner Should Know
The Order of Things: What College Rankings Really Tell Us by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker 2011
And so to question:
McCleans ranking of Canadian universities and colleges
Rankings of Sustainability for North American universities
Rankings of planning programs by
Assessing performance of university departments
Assessing faculty for merit, tenure and promotion
Use of indicators such as GDP, Genuine Progress, Wellbeing etc