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- Title
Análisis de clúster de universidades ecuatorianas según su posicionamiento en el ranking mundial.
- Authors
Vega Falcón, Vladimir; Castro Sánchez, Fernando; Sánchez Martínez, Belkis
- Abstract
The analysis of university rankings and their variables helps to make decisions at the ministerial level within each country, resulting necessary the grouping of these institutions in clusters that maximize intra-group homogeneity and inter-group heterogeneity, for decision making. The objective was to form the clusters of the 65 Ecuadorian universities, according to the positioning of the variables that make up their world ranking. It was an observational, retrospective, cross-sectional and analytical study, using k-means and hypotheses through ANOVA. As a result, three clusters of Ecuadorian universities were formed, according to their positioning in the world ranking. It is concluded that by means of clustering, Ecuadorian universities were satisfactorily grouped for better decision making.
- Subjects
GROUP decision making; UNIVERSITY rankings; MULTIVARIATE analysis; CROSS-sectional method; HOMOGENEITY; COUNTRIES
- Publication
Dilemas Contemporáneos: Educación, Política y Valores, 2021, Vol 8, Issue 3, p1
- ISSN
2007-7890
- Publication type
Article