Center for Measuring University Performance

{{Short description|Research center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst}}

{{Update|talk=Still in existence?|date=August 2018}}

The Center for Measuring University Performance is a research center at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The Center is best known for an annual report it produces, The Top American Research Universities,{{cite web|url=http://mup.umass.edu/Top-Universities|year=2018|publisher=The Center for Measuring University Performance|title=The Top American Research Universities.}} that ranks American universities on nine different measures: Total Research, Federal Research, Endowment Assets, Annual Giving, National Academy Members, Faculty Awards, Doctorates Granted, Postdoctoral Appointees, and SAT/ACT range. The center also produces other scholarly works on ranking and education quality.{{cite web|url=http://mup.asu.edu/publications.html|year=2008|publisher=The Center for Measuring University Performance|title=Reports and Other Staff Publications.|accessdate=2008-02-24|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229064547/http://mup.asu.edu/publications.html|archivedate=2008-02-29}} The raw data used by the researchers at The Center is made available to the public on the web.{{cite web|url=http://mup.asu.edu/research_data.html|year=2007|publisher=The Center for Measuring University Performance|title=American Research University Data.|accessdate=2007-02-24|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111031204542/http://mup.asu.edu/research_data.html|archivedate=2011-10-31}} This ranking's influence within the academic community has been described as being "commonly regarded to be one of three indicators that reflect an institution's rank as a Tier One institution", the other two being the classification of a university with "very high research activity" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and membership within the Association of American Universities.{{cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120630170707/http://chronicle.com/campusViewpointArticle/Elevating-UH-to-Tier-One/447/|url=http://chronicle.com/campusViewpointArticle/Elevating-UH-to-Tier-One/447/|title=Carnegie Foundation Gives University of Houston its Highest Classification for Research Success, Elevating UH to Tier One Status|first=|publisher=The Chronicle of Higher Education|archivedate=June 30, 2012|accessdate=January 30, 2013}}

Elizabeth Capaldi, former executive vice president and provost of Arizona State University, co-directed The Center for Measuring University Performance with John Lombardi, former president of the Louisiana State University system.