Ranking čínských univerzit

The thesis disserts upon a ranking of Chinese universities. Firstly, it analyses the existing rankings and league tables of Chinese universities. Two of them are regarded as adequately subtle and with well-founded methodology -- the ranking of Chinese Universities Alumni Association and ranking of the website Netbig.com. Secondly, a new ranking of Chinese universities is designed to reflect the needs of Czech students who are considering to undertake tertiary education in China. The main objective of the work consists in creation of such a ranking of Chinese universities that would enhance the decision-making comfort of choosing a suitable university in China for the Czech applicants. Although meeting the purpose of the ranking was accented all the time, due to limited access to source data, not all the criteria which would boost the decision-making comfort could be included. Newly created ranking evaluates activities of the universities in three areas -- education, research and science and international engagement. Nevertheless the created ranking replicates in great part its two Chinese predecessors as it builds on their results. Like other multicriterial rankings, the newly formed one uses weighted average of the scores gained by each university in each criterion to determine a single rank of the institutions. To minimize the arbitrariness of allocation of the weights, Saaty Method has been applied. However this could not fully erase certain degree of subjectivity in the weight allocation. Therefore the work includes an electronic version of the ranking (in MS Excel) which enables the users to set the weights in such a way, that it complies with their specific needs. This along with correct interpretation of results of the ranking may lead to increasing their decision-making comfort when choosing the suitable Chinese university to study.