uniranks {GDAdata} | R Documentation |
The Guardian University League Table 2013
Description
The Guardian newspaper in the UK publishes a ranking of British universities each year and it reported these data in May, 2012 as a guide for 2013.
Usage
data(uniranks)
Format
A data frame with 120 observations on the following 13 variables.
Rank
Rank of the University
Institution
University name
UniGroup
Universities can be a member of one of five groups,
1994 Group
,Guild HE
,Million+
,Russell
,University Alliance
, or noneHesaCode
University's Higher Education Statistics Agency code
AvTeachScore
Average Teaching Score
NSSTeaching
University's National Student Survey teaching score
NSSOverall
University's NSS overall score
SpendPerStudent
University expenditure per student (depends on subject)
StudentStaffRatio
Student to Staff ratio
CareerProspects
Proportion of graduates in appropriate level employment or full-time study within six months of graduation
ValueAddScore
”Based upon a sophisticated indexing methodology that tracks students from enrolment to graduation, qualifications upon entry are compared with the award that a student receives at the end of their studies.” (Guardian)
EntryTariff
Value dependent on the average points needed to get on the university's courses
NSSFeedback
University's NSS feedback score
Source
http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/may/22/university-guide-2013-guardian-data
Examples
data(uniranks, package="GDAdata")
with(uniranks, table(UniGroup))
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(uniranks, aes(x=NSSTeaching, y=NSSFeedback)) + geom_point()
ggplot(uniranks, aes(x=UniGroup, y=SpendPerStudent)) + geom_boxplot()