The study examines the incompatibility between the excellence norms used in global rankings and the conventional domestic university hierarchy . The prestige of Japanese elite universities has been primarily constructed on exam selectivity of students and producing desirable graduates for the domestic labour market . Although such a conventional system is in need of adjustment under globalisation , replacing it with excellence norms of global rankings is destruc tive to employment and career systems that have defined the lives of Japan's middle - class, white - collar workers for much of the postwar period. Unlike previous works on global university rankings often conducted from national or institutional perspectives, this study identifies a potential threat of the hegemonic "world - class" model to jobs, remunerations and upward social mobility of individuals from a case of Japan

 

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