Abstract:
The text aims to analyze the profile of Brazilian universities that are in the World Class University condition (UCM) and the potential to achieve this condition. The study is document-based with exploratory features. The documental corpus consists of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), the Times Highter Education Rankings (THE) and the Quacquarelli Symonds World University Ranking (QS), disclosed in the 2011-2015 period; the data provided by the World Wide Web in the yearbooks of UERJ, Unicamp, USP and UNESP; the budget of São Paulo in 2014, data from CAPES (2015), INEP and the websites of the universities. We note that there are three consolidated universities provided UCM (USP, Unicamp and UFRJ) and three in consolidation (UNESP, UFRGS and UFMG). UNESP, UFRGS and the UFRJ have upward trend in the rankings; USP, Unicamp and UFMG have downward trend. It finds potential to reach the UCM condition in 11 universities: PUC-RJ, PUC-RS, UERJ, UFBA, UFPR, UFSC, UFSCar, UTV, UNB, PUC-SP and Unifesp. Brazilian UCM are public, with a mean age of 72 years and with a percentage of 76.49 students in undergraduate and 23.51% in graduate school. The state of São Paulo has the highest percentage of graduate students and a higher level of investment (annual cost per student). The study found that universities that belong to the World Class have in common publications in journals indexed in databases like SCIE, the SSCI, Thomson Reuters and Scopus.
Key words:
University; Rankings criteria; World class