Does QS Ranking Really Affect the School Administrative Management and How? A Case Study of Tsinghua University

Yuanyuan Song

《International Journal of Social Science and Education Research》 4卷11期 (2021/11) Pp. 32-45

https://doi.org/10.6918/IJOSSER.202111_4(11).0005

摘要

In recent years, university rankings have become ever more important. Every year when the university rankings are announced, it affects the hearts of schools, parents and students. In recent years, China has paid more and more attention to the development of higher education (Yang, & Welch,2012). The conceptual policies such as ＂211 Plan＂, ＂985 Plan＂, ＂Double First-Class Plan＂ and ＂World-Class University＂ have been proposed successively. It shows that China pays great attention to the rankings of higher education, internationalization and other issues. At the same time, China's unique party-government management model plays a significant role in higher education management. Therefore, this article seeks to explore the relationship between QS ranking and higher education administration. How does QS ranking affect higher education administration and how does China's higher education improve international rankings by improving the level of administration? This article uses Tsinghua University as a case study, since Tsinghua University is currently the number one university in China, and it performs well in the QS ranking in recent years and has a certain degree of representativeness. After the literature research, semi-structured interviews and data analysis as well as other research methods, it could find that at present, there are not many researchs on the relationship between QS ranking and the development of higher education administrative management level, thus this article has a certain degree of innovation.

關鍵字

QS ranking ； Administrative management ； Higher education

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