Integrated assessment and ranking of universities by fuzzy inference.

For the evaluation and the subsequent ranking of universities for the quality of educational services provided by them it is proposed two approaches: statistical based on weighted estimates of key indicators of universities, and verbal based on the application of fuzzy inference engine. By applying these methods to the evaluation of five randomly selected universities (hypothetical alternatives), it is obtained their aggregate estimations (ratings) and corresponding two ways of ranking. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]