If you cannot define something, you cannot measure it. Since there is no one universal definition of a good university, how can there be a measure? So anyone

If you cannot define something, you cannot measure it. Since there is no one universal definition of a good university, how can there be a measure? So anyone offering a measurement (Columbia is 9.4, Harvard is 9.25 etc) is by definition lying. The core issue here is that people really want a simple universal scale. The fact that doesn't exist doesn't stop them wanting it. And instead of accepting that it makes them MORE ready to grab whatever rating sounds good based on some repetitional BS around the person offering it.