If some commercial uni rankings read like products, Multirank looks like the work of officials who would rather be right than read
EU funded Multirank creates comparable profiles of universities based on five standard sets of variables, teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, “international orientation” and regional engagement. But it does not combine them into scores that are ranked from highest to lowest. Rather, it’s a resource for people to create their own comparative sets by geography and institution and discipline.
It’s a good-enough idea for 45 ANZ institutions to participate and it is way less cumbersome than it used to be (CMM June 7 2019).
But it does not make good promotional copy for uni marketers, of the, “eleventy-first among universities in countries starting with A for astronomy and water-polo” kind and is accordingly and unfairly obscure.