U-multirank demands across-the-board data collection effort but delivers patchy returns

By Éanna Kelly. The new EU-sponsored university league table launched on the 13 May, puts emphasis in unusual places and looks to be drawing conclusions based on low samples, says Per-Anders Östling. 
My university, Sweden’s Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), recently participated in the compilation of the new university league table, U-multirank, receiving an overall ranking and individual rankings for our curricula in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and physics. More...