Scholars of education and education management and administrators of universities explore paths to creating prestigious research universities to develop a country's competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. Taking in turn national/regional, institutional, and ranking/indicator perspectives, they consider such aspects as political and cultural variation in world-class universities, an excellence initiative in liberal arts and science education at Amsterdam University College, policies on building world-class universities in Saudi Arabia and how they impact King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, the world-class university and Asia's top tier researchers, and the Global Institutional Profiles Project as a new approach to evaluating academic institutions. The volume is not indexed. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
