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When Metrics Become Goals
The American University of Beirut’s withdrawal from the Times Higher Education rankings in September 2025, followed by Saint Joseph University in April 2026, has renewed debate over the rankings’ reliability amid concerns about data and citation manipulation and efforts to steer research towards improving indicators. The article warns against allowing numbers and rankings to become ends in themselves at the expense of research originality and integrity and the quality of education. It stresses that rankings alone cannot measure a university’s mission or account for the diversity of its circumstances, nor are they sufficient for choosing the right university. It calls for transparent standards, verification and accountability mechanisms, and independent internal assessment combining quantitative and qualitative measures while taking education, research, integrity and community service into account—all while keeping rankings a means, not an end.
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