Ranking universities remains a misleading, fatuous exercise as useful as comparing the tasteful qualities of, say, dependable Russian piroshki with those of an aromatic beef rendang. Chalk and cheese; apples and oranges. But this nasty contrivance has become an annual feature that clogs the email accounts of university staff members and students like cloacal spam, glorified by management moguls. It all depends on whether the institution in question is interested in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) measure, or perhaps the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings. Maybe preference will be had for the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy’s Academic Ranking of World Universities, or the US News Best Global Universities Rankings.