Rankings and evaluation
Rankings - or university league tables - are produced by combining a wide range of factors and can assess the position of a university within geographical areas of varying scope (by country, continent or worldwide). What is evaluated includes services, teaching, research and several other factors, depending on the evaluating body and the tools chosen.
Internal assessment committees and tools
The University of Padua also makes use of internal committees and assessment tools:
- The Evaluation Group is responsible for reviewing and assessing the quality and effectiveness of the teaching provision and of research activity; it also assesses facilities and staff; it also verifies the proper management of public resources, as well as the impartiality and proper conduct of administrative action.
- research assessment is given considerable importance at the University of Padua: surveys and results are processed and published according to criteria of transparency.
- The University also conducts, through the completion of an online questionnaire, surveys of students' opinions regarding the teaching activities carried out by the University.
Further information: International rankings: not only bibliometrics