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The Going broke universities – Disappearing universities (危ない大学・消える大学 ''Abunai Daigaku Kieru Daigaku'') is a ranking book about Japanese Universities by Japanese journalist Kiyoshi Shimano, published annually since 1993. Although there are a lot of university rankings in Japan, most of them rank universities by their entrance difficulties often called "Hensachi" or by alumni's successes. Especially, the Hensachi Rankings have been most commonly used for university ranking.〔増田 晶文 "大学は学生に何ができるか" 2003〕 From this view point, GBUDU is a typical ranking book in Japan. The GBUDU ranks Japanese Universities in terms of the entrance difficulty and selectivity. The author's main argument is that more selective universities have better quality, and generally guarantee students better future careers. Thus people should avoid least selective universities, and try to enter more selective ones as much as they can.〔However, it is not always true that more selective universities are better for job hunting (e.g. universities in big cities such as Greater Tokyo and Greater Osaka are more competitive in Japanese job market). In fact, Shimano also regularly publishes the another ranking book from this perspective (see the reference below).〕 ==Methodology== The GBUDU rankings are made by the average scores of Hensachi estimated by Japanese major prep school Yoyogi seminar.〔 Consequently, it can be regarded as a summary of the selectivity of Japanese universities.〔Usually prep schools provide rankings in each subject, but rarely do the whole university rankings. From this point of view, GBUDU is one of few publications which provide this data.〕〔However this ranking system doesn't include several small specialist universities. For example, all of the independent medical schools are not considered, although their entrance difficulties are highly competitive. Therefore this ranking system only includes major universities.〕〔Normally, National/Public Universities and Private Universities use different sort of exams, so it's not easily comparable. Hensachi scores have a tendency to be higher with Private Universities. Shimano applies his own measurement to fix this tendency to make it more realistic.〕 He prepared the following 10 scales to measure universities' entrance difficulties. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Going broke universities – Disappearing universities」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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