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In recent years, the higher education (HE) sector has undergone a drastic transformation due to the globalisation of knowledge. World university rankings have supported this process and have fostered the consolidation of the global market of HE (Salmi, 2009; Altbach & Salmi, 2011). These global rankings (mainly, the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the Times Higher Education World University Rankings (THE), and the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Rankings (QS)) seem to take into account a wide spectrum of variables to rank universities.
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Torre, E.M.d.L., Perez-Esparrells, C. (2017). New Strategies of European Technical Universities in the Emerging Competitive Environment of Global Rankings. In: Dent, S., Lane, L., Strike, T. (eds) Collaboration, Communities and Competition. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-122-3_4
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