Numerous organizations produce rankings of universities in the United States each year.
Other publications have produced "rankings of the rankings", which coalesce and summarize the findings of multiple independent rankings.
In producing their popular publications and rankings, these publishers "ask the same core questions" of institutions using the Common Data Set to define those questions and their responses.
The combination of the United States Videotel program and a French Minitel computer should have produced international rankings within hours, but in practice it took six days.
That will in turn produce rankings for each of the top divisions from 2009 onwards.
There are numerous flaws with them (study the educational research if you care to get your noses out of the Daily Mail) and actually different comparators produce different rankings.
Thus match results are more important than margins of victory in producing accurate rankings.
Since 1965 Golf Digest has produced biennial rankings of "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses".
From 2010-2011, Times Higher Education produces rankings independently from Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).
No major sanctioning body currently recognises this division, although the minor International Boxing Association does have a champion and produces rankings.