Rankings in brazilian higher education: an approach to public and private rankings

Abstract

This article provides a theoretical approach to public and private higher education academic rankings in Brazil aimed towards understanding their complexity and course of development. The paper supports that the changes stemming from the transformation from a Provider State into an Evaluator State model strengthened the trends around assessments through rankings, and it also confirms the incipience of private and state rankingsfaced withamarket scenario where they are ultimately legitimized

En el presente artículo,realizamos una aproximación teórica a los rankings académicos, públicos y privados, de la educación superior brasileña, con la tentativa de comprender su complejidady su trayectoria. Defendemos que los cambios derivados de la transformación del Estado proveedor para un modelo de Estado evaluador reforzaron las tendencias en torno a las calificaciones pormedio derankings,yconstatamoslainsipiencia delosrankingsestatalesy privados frente a la existencia de un mercado en el cual acaban ganando legitimidad