US News Graduate School Rankings
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. This year’s rankings have seen a […]
New Japan Ranking from THE
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. Tohoku University, Miyagi, is first for the fifth consecutive year followed by the Tokyo Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo. The current […]
Ranking of Political Science Productivity from Cambridge
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’. The article presents a ranking of the research productivity of political science departments. The metrics are […]
New Wikipedia Ranking of Universities
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 […]
QS Subject Rankings: US and UK Leading, East Asia Rising, Europe Falling
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. It therefore places a greater emphasis on research. The weighting assigned to these indicators varies from […]
National Academy of Inventors Announces University Rankings
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). This year’s […]
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)
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. It is not as well-known as some other world rankings, but its methodology is generally reliable and consistent, and it is beginning […]
Eclipse of the Universities – Scimago Institutions Ranking
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. It provides data for the Webometrics rankings and is a pioneer among ranking agencies by including metrics for gender, open access, sustainability, […]
Financial Times MBA Ranking
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 methodology is based on 21 criteria, of which eight are derived from alumni responses, twelve […]
THE Reputation Rankings New Methodology
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. THE now uses six indicators. In addition to the vote counts used in previous rankings, they now rate universities according to pairwise comparison, where […]