Analysis of the university rankings assessment reliability

Abstract

At all stages of the development of education it is important to solve the strategic task of providing the quality of education. It should be noted that in recent years, a large number of private universities appeared in Latvia. These institutions, just like governmental universities, declare having big goals and tasks, which are fulfilled in the process of education. However, there is a significant degree of non-compliance of the claimed goals and objectives with the actual results that are achieved in the process of their implementation. This is due to the fact that each of the active participants in the educational space interprets these goals and objectives in their own way.The mathematical model of solution allows to access the influence of any single elementary operation on classification results and to choose its characteristics in a rational way. The paper proposes the use of experts and evaluation of the accuracy of this method by calculating the statistical error of the method.