Mining Meta-indicators of University Ranking: A Machine Learning Approach Based on SHAP

11/24/2021

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by   Shudong Yang, et al.

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University evaluation and ranking is an extremely complex activity. Major universities are struggling because of increasingly complex indicator systems of world university rankings. So can we find the meta-indicators of the index system by simplifying the complexity? This research discovered three meta-indicators based on interpretable machine learning. The first one is time, to be friends with time, and believe in the power of time, and accumulate historical deposits; the second one is space, to be friends with city, and grow together by co-develop; the third one is relationships, to be friends with alumni, and strive for more alumni donations without ceiling.