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3: University Ranking Shows Boom in Global Student Mobility
A
rise in international students attending universities around the globe has
caught the attention of those assembling the annual QS World Universities
Ranking, a table containing the top 100 universities of the year based on a
number of factors such as opinions of perspective employers, academics, and an
international student and faculty count.
John O’ Leary, an academic advisor
for Quacquarelli Symonds, stated that 2012s latest rankings have shown almost a
10 percent rise in international student numbers. QS believes that the most successful
universities compete to attract the world’s best students and
faculty. As this is said, a rising
number of ranking systems has become available to prospective students and upon
this rise, controversy has presented itself.
Many are asking, how objective and scientific are these rankings? With the current number of international
students reaching 3.4 million, QS has expressed that their ranking system is
produced annually to help international students make informed choices on
picking a university that can be deemed their own.
As a student of The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, I have, on numerous accounts, been informed of the international
program offered here. This program seems to be amazing in the fact that
students are allowed to spend a semester abroad for the equivalent cost of one
semester at UNCG. So as it seems, we Spartans are contributing to the ongoing
rise associated with the QS university ranking system and therefore could
possibly benefit from this resource when selecting where to study abroad. From
a personal perspective, there is much benefit associated with world travel if a
student, or anyone at that matter, takes on the new environment with an open
mind and a will to learn. Understanding cultures other than ones own has become
a significant factor in what seems to be all fields. Business, academics, science, mathematics,
social work, and human resources, along with many others, are examples of
fields that have come to involve, depending on the situation at hand, work in
diverse environmental settings.
Knowledge of multiple cultures can enable one to effectively communicate
to a copious assortment of people without confusion during an exchange of words
and/or non-verbal connections as well.
In
conclusion, globalization of education when used to ones advantage, has ability
to increase the amount of knowledge one will learn in a foreign country by
"killing 2 birds with one stone." A student is learning a culture
through submersion and can adopt communicate skills used when conversing with
those representing the particular culture, as well as learning course material
through lectures, textbooks, and assignments taught and given by possible
foreign instructors. For those looking to advance in any given career dealing
with diversity, studying abroad may be the best way to gain the necessary
skills to do so.
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