Suggested multi criteria decision support system for ranking universities in Arabic countries

Joint Authors

Dakhil, Farhan Ismail
Asif, Rauf Smko

Source

ضمان جودة التعليم العالي : المؤتمر العربي الدولي الأول المنعقد في رحاب جامعة الزرقاء / الأردن خلال الفترة 10-12 / 5 / 2011 م

Publisher

Zarka Private University Dcanship of Scientific Research

Publication Date

2011-05-31

Country of Publication

Jordan

No. of Pages

8

Main Subjects

Educational Sciences

Topics

• Universities
• Colleges
• Conferences
• Arab world

English Abstract

The evaluation of education with ranking lists of universities has become, over the past few years, increasingly popular.

Rankings of higher education institutions are attractive to consumers, students, benefactors, alumni and governments: they promise to reduce uncertainty for those who have to make choices in an environment where full information is not available and quality cannot be equated to price.

In this paper, we suggested a design for decision support system (DSS) to be implemented and used in the Association of Arab Universities.

The paper suggested a design of the system using multi criteria optimization approach with multiple attributes and multiple objectives concerning the higher education quality assurance issues in the higher education institutions in the Arabic countries.

Instead of methodology used to rank universities is a simple weighted sum, which has several limitations.

First, the weights are predetermined with very little, if any, justification of their value.

Therefore, it is assumed that the criteria have the same importance (i.e.

weight) for everybody.

This is clearly not true as each person is different and has different preferences.

Moreover, commercial league tables use a simple aggregation, which is compensatory and does not differentiate between universities having strengths in different areas.

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-445242

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