Which Universities Have the Most Employable Graduates?

The 14th  edition of the Graduate Employability University Ranking and Survey (GEURS) has been produced by Emerging, a French consulting company, and published in Times Higher Education (THE). The ranking is based on a survey conducted between June and September of this year and involved over 13,000 managers, employers and recruiters in 33 countries. Over […]

Shanghai Subject Rankings Introduce New Indicators

Shanghai Ranking has published the latest Global Ranking of Academic Subjects. Over 1,900 universities in 96 jurisdictions were ranked in 55 subjects in natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences. There are now four new indicators that measure world-class faculty: winners of international academic awards, highly cited researchers, editors of international academic […]

IREG Observatory grows by seven new members

The General Assembly of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence meeting in Bucharest, Romania on 8 November 2024 unanimously voted to admit seven universities as IREG new full members; these are: Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University (PNU), Saudi Arabia Tashkent International University of Financial Management and Technologies, Uzbekistan Yaşar University, Turkey Bukhara State University, […]

IREG Conference on Artificial Intelligence, H Ed and Rankings

IREG has just completed a conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) altering HE and Rankings in Bucharest, organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of Romania, SNSPA University, and sponsorship of Elsevier. The conference discussed the consequences of the rise of AI on higher education and global research, including its direct and indirect impact on […]

EngiRank 2024 – Ranking of Europe’s Engineering Universities

Brussels, 29 October 2024. Technical University of Denmark on the top spot followed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and KU Leuven (Belgium) are best European engineering schools according to EngiRank 2024 created by “Perspektywy” Educational Foundation. The ranking includes 226 higher education institutions in 27 EU countries, and in Switzerland and Norway. EngiRank was created […]

Best Universities for Artificial Intelligence

At the moment there are four agencies that publish rankings on university performance in the field of Artificial Intelligence:  QS, US News (USN), University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP),  and EduRank. The QS ranking is based on reputation and citation indicators. USN and URAP also have metrics for publications and international collaboration. EduRank is based […]

THE World Rankings: Australian and British Universities Decline

Times Higher Education (THE) have just published the latest edition of their World University Rankings (WUR). The University of Oxford remains at the top of the ranking, although there have been some significant changes further down. The rankings are based on 17 indicators grouped in 5 “pillars” as follows: Teaching (weighting 29.5%); Teaching reputation, Staff […]

Open Edition of Leiden Ranking

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University has announced the release of the second open edition of Leiden Ranking. This is intended to be fully transparent, unlike the Times Higher Education World University published on the same day. Data is derived from the OpenAlex database, which is based on open-access principles. There […]

RUR Subject Rankings: Elite Universities in Decline

Round University Rankings (RUR) have announced the new edition of their subject rankings. The rankings are currently published in Tbilisi, Georgia. The broad subject rankings use the same methodology as the world rankings, while the narrow subject rankings are based entirely on papers, citations, and patents. The broad rankings consist of four groups of indicators […]

AD Scientific Index Ranks World’s Top Scientists

The AD scientific index is produced by Murat Alper of the Sağlık Bilimleri University Istanbul  and Cihan Döğer of the Ankara Provincial Directorate of Health. It is based on Google Scholar data and provides a variety of rankings of individuals and institutions, including research productivity, h-index, and citations. The rankings are updated every two to […]