Proposal for a New BRICS Ranking
The education ministers of the fives BRICS countries, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa have agreed to set up a new global university ranking. This was one of the outcomes of a meeting in Mpumalanga, South Africa reported by TASS, The announcement is the culmination of several years of dissatisfaction with international rankings. Some Chinese […]
THE Publishes New Africa Ranking
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the publication of their Sub-Saharan University Rankings. These resulted from consultations with universities, organisations, and companies across the continent led by Asheshi University, Ghana, and the Mastercard Foundation. The methodology is based on 24 metrics grouped in five pillars, each with a 20% weighting: Resources and Finances Access and […]
In pursuit of academic excellence
In the Perspektywy University Ranking 2023 Jagiellonian University in Krakow shares the top place ex aequo with the University of Warsaw; on the third place is the Warsaw University of Technology while the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan shares the 4th place with the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow. The best private […]
QS World Rankings Reveal New Methodology
The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings has been announced with a new methodology. QS have reduced the weighting given to the Academic Survey, and to Faculty Student Ratio while increasing that for the Employer Survey. In addition, there are three new indicators each with a five per cent weighting, Sustainability, Employment Outcomes, […]
Dr. Omar Al-Ansari is the new President of Qatar University
New Edition of Leiden Ranking
The Leiden Ranking is published annually by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, the Netherlands. It is specifically designed to provide information to the global research community and to serve as an alternative to the big four global rankings. The ranking is based on bibliographic information derived from the Science […]
Nature Index Shows Changes in Research Quality
Nature Index is a database of articles in leading journals in the fields of life sciences, earth and environmental sciences, chemistry, physics and, starting this year, health sciences. It is regarded as a valid measure of scientific research of the highest quality. The latest edition shows a significant increase in high quality publications by Chinese […]
“Top-200 Ukraine 2023” ranking published despite the war
The Center for International Projects “Eurosvita” in Kyiv published the seventeenth academic ranking in Ukraine. In defiance to the war, Ukrainian universities demonstrate stability. Faculty, academics, staff and students are doing their best to create high-quality human capital and advanced technologies for the country’s defense and its post-war reconstruction and innovative transformation. To emphasize the […]
Supercomputer Ranking: Has China Faltered?
The TOP500 world ranking of the world’s most powerful computer systems is based on “Linpack, which means that systems are ranked only by their ability to solve a set of linear equations, A x = b, using a dense random matrix A.” Rankings are compiled by four experts from NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University […]
THE Impact Rankings 2023
Times Higher Education (THE) have published the fifth edition of their Impact rankings which attempt to measure the commitment of universities to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). These rankings have expanded rapidly since 2019 and now include 1,591 universities. Universities are ranked according to their performance in four criteria related to the SDGs, […]