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CodeSignal is a California-based company specializing in the training and assessment of software developers. Among its initiatives is the University Ranking Report, which is based on the General Coding Assessment, “the industry standard for evaluation of core programming and computer science fundamentals taught in most undergraduate programs in the US.”
In addition to rankings of universities based on web metrics, UniRank also publishes international rankings of universities that take into account their social media presence.
Such metrics are typically not regarded as reliable indicators of excellence.
An article in the South China Morning Post has reported a “seismic shift” in global scientific leadership and noted the rise of Chinese chemistry research and the contrasting decline or stagnation of the field in American and European universities.
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the latest edition of their Asian University Rankings. There are not many surprises in the overall tables but some scores for the Research Quality metric have aroused concern, especially in India.
QS have developed International Trade Rankings in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation. The rankings, published in February of this year, cover master’s and MBA programmes in international trade. There is also a table for executive MBAs. Twenty-eight countries are included although Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are not represented.
Shanghai Ranking Consultancy have announced the latest edition of their Best Chinese Universities Ranking (BCUR). The methodology is complex and very different from that of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). It varies according to the type of university.
US News have published the latest edition of their Best Graduate Schools, which have been eagerly awaited in the USA and beyond. The Law School and Business School rankings in particular are closely followed by students, teachers, and the media, and have often been the source of fierce controversy.
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the latest edition of their Japan University Rankings. These use a different methodology from the world rankings and are focused on teaching rather than research.
PS: Political Science and Politics, a journal published by Cambridge University Press, has just published an article by Joan Barceló, Chistopher Paik, Peter van der Windt, and Haoyu Zhai, ‘A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments’.
Ivan Sterligov of E-Quadrat Science & Education, a Berlin based consulting firm, has developed a university ranking tool based on visits to Wikipedia, which is considered a valuable measure of public interest. The relevant metric is the median of pageviews for 12 bimonthly periods in 2023-24. The ranking includes degree granting institutions, some specialised post-secondary institutions, and even Eton College, a prestigious independent secondary school.
The National Academy of Inventors (NAI) is an organization, based in Florida, comprising 260 universities, government agencies, and research institutes. Since 2013 it has published a list of the top 100 international universities that were granted utility patents during the calendar year. Data is provided by the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
QS have just announced the latest edition of their world university rankings by subject. The methodology is significantly different from the world rankings, consisting of five indicators: Academic Review, Employer Review, H-Index, Citations per Paper, and International Research Network.
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is published by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. It is based entirely on objective public data and now ranks 3,000 universities.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings are published by Scimago Lab, a company created by research groups at the Spanish National Research Council and the University of Granada and has published institutional rankings since 2009.
The latest edition of the Financial Times MBA rankings was published in the middle of February. There has been a lot of churning, and some famous American and British schools have fallen while several from Asia have improve significantly.