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Philip G. Altbach

Philip G. Altbach

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Social Sciences and Humanities
USA
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
86
Citations
41063
World Ranking
250
National Ranking
114

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in United States Leader Award
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Educational Research Association

Overview

Philip G. Altbach is affiliated with Boston College in the United States and specializes primarily in the Social Sciences, with a focus on Political Science and International Relations, Education, Communication, General Health Professions, and Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

Their research contribution spans across topics such as Higher Education Governance and Development, Higher Education Learning Practices, International Student and Expatriate Challenges, Doctoral Education Challenges and Solutions, Global Education Systems and Policies, Academic Freedom and Politics, and Family Business Performance and Succession.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Is Indian Higher Education Finally Waking Up?, 2020, Change The Magazine of Higher Learning
  • India: Politics and Threats to Academic Freedom, 2025, International Higher Education

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts include:

  • Hans de Wit
  • Maria Yudkevich
  • Eldho Mathews
  • Jamil Salmi
  • Chris R. Glass

Philip G. Altbach's work has appeared predominantly in these publication venues:

  • International Higher Education
  • Change The Magazine of Higher Learning
  • Policy Reviews in Higher Education
  • Japanese Studies
  • London Review of Education

The scholar has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association since 2013.

Best Publications

  • The Internationalization of Higher Education: Motivations and Realities

    Philip G. Altbach;Jane Knight

  • Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution

    Philip G. Altbach;Liz Reisberg;Laura E. Rumbley

  • Tracking a Global Academic Revolution.

    Philip G. Altbach;Liz Reisberg;Laura E. Rumbley

  • Globalisation and the university: Myths and realities in an unequal world

    Philip G. Altbach

  • American Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century: Social, Political and Economic Challenges.

    Philip G. Altbach;Patricia J. Gumport;Robert Oliver Berdahl

  • The Costs and Benefits of World-Class Universities

    Philip Altbach

  • Comparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University, and Development

    Philip G. Altbach

  • The Road to Academic Excellence : The Making of World-Class Research Universities

    Philip G. Altbach;Jamil Salmi

  • Higher Education Crosses Borders: Can the United States Remain the Top Destination for Foreign Students?

    Philip G. Altbach

  • Internationalization in Higher Education: Global Trends and Recommendations for Its Future.

    Hans de Wit;Philip G. Altbach

  • Internationalization and Exchanges in a Globalized University

    Philip G. Altbach;Ulrich Teichler

  • Globalization and the University: Realities in an Unequal World

    Philip G. Altbach

  • GLOBALIZATION AND THE UNIVERSITY: MYTHS AND REALITIES IN AN UNEQUAL WORLD

    Philip G. Altbach

  • World Class Worldwide: Transforming Research Universities in Asia and Latin America

    Philip G. Altbach;Bal

  • Patterns in Higher Education Development: Toward the Year 2000.

    Philip G. Altbach

  • Academic Freedom: International Realities and Challenges

    Philip G. Altbach

  • Private Prometheus: Private Higher Education and Development in the 21st Century

    Philip G. Altbach

  • Advancing the national and global knowledge economy: the role of research universities in developing countries

    Philip G. Altbach

  • The decline of the guru : the academic profession in developing and middle-income countries

    Philip G. Altbach

  • African Higher Education: An International Reference Handbook

    Damtew Teferra;Philip G. Altbach

  • International handbook of higher education

    James J. F. Forest;Philip G. Altbach

Frequent Co-Authors

Jane Knight
Jane Knight University of Toronto
Ulrich Teichler
Ulrich Teichler University of Kassel
Burton R. Clark
Burton R. Clark University of California, Los Angeles
Carlos Alberto Torres
Carlos Alberto Torres University of California, Los Angeles
Alexander W. Astin
Alexander W. Astin University of California, Los Angeles

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