PitchBook Showcases Entrepreneurial Universities

PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in the UK and the USA. It produces annual rankings of universities based on the number of alumni who have raised venture capital over the last ten years. The United States still dominates the global rankings. The top twenty universities for undergraduate founders include seventeen […]

The Global University Visibility Ranking

  The Global University Visibility Rankings are published by American Caldwell, a higher education market research group. They use a number of indicators of global branding: news mention, public interest, social media, website visitors, web references, online footprint, and video views. The second edition, which was recently published, is dominated by the United States, which […]

Latest Shanghai Ranking Shows New World-Class Universities

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is published by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and is the oldest of the current global university rankings. There are six indicators: Nobel and Fields awards to alumni, awards to faculty, highly cited researchers, publications in journals indexed in the Science Citation Index Enhanced and the Social Science Citation Index, […]

URAP Subject Rankings Announced

University Ranking by Academic Performance is published by the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. It is a research-based ranking that uses publicly available data from InCites. Universities in Asia and Eastern Europe that are dissatisfied with the better-known rankings are now beginning to pay it some attention. There are currently six […]

IREG 2024 Conference AI influence on HE and Rankings

IREG 2024 Conference, Bucharest, 7-8 November 2024 No longer a science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) has invaded higher education on many fronts. Teaching has always been regarded a human domain, yet generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT seem ready to replace instructors. The thread is so real that to protect teaching jobs the state of […]

Latest Webometrics Ranking

The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is published by the Cybermetrics Lab of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid. It is by far the most inclusive of the global rankings and now ranks over 30,000 universities according to research output and web impact.  Currently, there are three indicators: Visibility (50%); number of […]

Leiden Ranking

The CWTS Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It provides data on academic publications by universities and, in recent years, has added tables on international and industrial collaboration, open access, and gender equity. The publication data is derived from core journals in the Web of Science […]

US News Releases Global Rankings

The US News has announced the latest edition of its Best Global Universities. This follows a long delay resulting from controversies over the agency’s American law and medical school rankings. This is a research-based ranking that does not attempt to measure teaching quality or social impact.  There are 13 indicators: Global research reputation, Regional research […]

Top-200 Ukraine 2024 ranking

Despite great losses as a result of the full-scale military invasion of Russia in Ukraine universities of this country do their best to educated their youth and carry on research. The Center for International Projects “Euroeducation” based in Kyiv published its 18th Academic ranking of higher education institution of Ukraine. The top place won Igor […]

Nature Index Confirms China’s Science Superpower Status

Nature Index is a database of 145 high-quality journals selected by leading active researchers. It currently covers publications in the biological sciences, chemistry, earth and environmental sciences, health sciences, and physical sciences. Tables can be displayed for academic, government, corporate, healthcare, and NPO/NGO organisations. The social science and the humanities are not included. Countries and […]