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Is Western Chemistry Declining?

04 May 2025

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.

Latest THE Asian University Rankings

27 April 2025

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 International Trade Rankings

21 April 2025

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.

Best Chinese Universities Ranking

16 April 2025

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 Graduate School Rankings

16 April 2025

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.

New Japan Ranking from THE

09 April 2025

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.

Ranking of Political Science Productivity from Cambridge

02 April 2025

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’.

New Wikipedia Ranking of Universities

31 March 2025

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.

National Academy of Inventors Announces University Rankings

22 March 2025

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 Subject Rankings: US and UK Leading, East Asia Rising, Europe Falling

13 March 2025

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)

09 March 2025

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.

Eclipse of the Universities – Scimago Institutions Ranking

05 March 2025

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.

Financial Times MBA Ranking

02 March 2025

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.

THE Reputation Rankings New Methodology

18 February 2025

Times Higher Education (THE) has announced the latest edition of its World Reputation Ranking. There is a new methodology and significant fluctuations, although the ranking is quite stable at the top.

Nature Index Reveals Shift Away from Western Universities

06 February 2025

The Nature Index is a database of research articles in biology, chemistry, Earth and environmental sciences, health sciences, and physical sciences. Currently the Index covers 145 journals chosen by leading researchers, which represent the highest level of research in the natural and health sciences.

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