Composite Ranking of Research Universities for Undergraduate Study

AWRU rankings have zero relevance to the quality of undergrad education. In fact, once could argue that the higher the AWRU ranking, the lower the quality of undergrad education as professors are pumping out more research (with grad students) instead of being involved in the undergrad education. Plus, citations are easily skewed and Chinese universities pump out tons of papers with little merit. That’s why their uni’s are so highly ranked in AWRU (check out their engineering rankings where 6 out of the top 20 are Chinese universities; if you know anything about the quality of education at Chinese universities - with the possible exception of Tsinghua - this shows you how easily these rankings can be manipulated.)