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Invitation to IREG 2025 Conference in Abu Dhabi

Come to IREG 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10-11 December 2025. Listen to university leaders and top international experts on university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Isidro F. Aguillo (Spain) discuss how rankings can contribute to university excellence and the sustainability goals.

Publication of Indian National Rankings

The National Institutional Ranking Framework was established by the Indian government in 2015, partly in response to dissatisfaction with the major global rankings.

PitchBook Identifies Entrepreneurial Universities

PitchBook is a financial data and research platform, based in Seattle, London, and Singapore, with offices in New York and San Francisco. It is now owned by Morningstar Inc and publishes an annual list of universities whose alumni have raised venture capital.

IDP Report on University Rankings

IDP Education Limited is an Australian-based international company that specializes in student placement, language testing, and advisory services. Its web pages frequently refer to the global rankings published by Shanghai Ranking, QS, Times Higher Education (THE), and US News, in addition to the Complete University Guide and the Guardian University Guide. They have recently published a report on the use of rankings by international students.

IREG 2025 Conference

Authors and analysts of global and regional university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Minchun Zh (China), Isidro F. Aguillo (Sain), top HE eperts and university leaders will discuss in Abu Dhabi rankings contribution to university excellence and sustainability.

Field Rankings from University Ranking by Academic Performance

The latest edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) shows an increasingly bipolar research world with China dominating engineering and the hard sciences while the USA and the UK still lead in the humanities and the social sciences.

AD Scientific Index Publishes Inclusive Rankings

The AD Scientific Index is a “real-time academic performance analysis platform” that publishes rankings based on Google Scholar profiles, which are more inclusive than Scopus or Web of Science.

Shanghai Rankings Show Dramatic Shift from the West

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), usually known as the Shanghai Rankings, are the oldest global university rankings. They are included among the three or four most well-known rankings and have a straightforward and stable methodology.

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