Ranking Egyptian Universities Using Fuzzy Logic

Abstract

During the last quarter of a century, university ranking systems have been developed as an outcome of new academic fields and metrics. Although they have attracted wide attention from policy makers, students, academicians, authorities and the media, they have been subjected to criticism. Any university that does not change as with the environment around them is doomed to fail. The results of universities in international rankings are a disturbing and foreboding danger. Universities are seeking to improve its services, students, citizens and visitors, to achieve better results in the international rankings. The objective of this study is spread public awareness of the importance of ranking of universities and higher education institutions, and push these institutions towards excellence and competition in the quality of scientific research and academic performance, and spreading the culture of the orientation about the universities rankings and higher education institutions in Egypt. By using web service we have collected data on Egyptian Universities of interest from a more number of web Services for fifteen Indicator each Egyptian University, We have constructed the weight matrix for the Indicator, Where an algorithm was created to Ranking the Egyptian universities using the membership function (trapezoidal ) in fuzzy logic Has been applied the fuzzy logic algorithm on the that data, we have compared the results with some International rankings for example (QS,U.S Nwes, Webmatix).This study showed positive results about comparing the results we get with some of the global rankings, the study confirmed that the Egyptian universities have high capabilities in the field of scientific research.