Graduates from these 37 top-ranked universities will be able to apply to come to the UK under a new "high potential individual" visa scheme. None from Africa, Latin America or South Asia. That’s a big problem.
If we really HAD to use rankings for this purpose (they were not designed for this), I'd look at the THE Impact Rankings, which assess social and economic impact, framed around the #SDGs. The world top 20 alone includes Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia: timeshighereducation.com/impactrankings…
I've written before that the THE World University Rankings are becoming much more inclusive, as a global levelling up is clealry taking place, but the methodology is based primarily on research weforum.org/agenda/2022/02…