South and Southeast Asia Rise in uniRank Social Media Rankings
uniRank is a directory and search engine that currently includes over 14,000 recognised or accredited higher education institutions that offer mainly in person courses for undergraduate or postgraduate degrees. It is essentially a measure of web activity rather than teaching or research and provides insights into global trends. The world ranking is based on an […]
Michelle Asha Cooper moves from the Biden administration to Lumina Foundation
A friend and co-founder of IREG Observatory – Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D., deputy undersecretary at the U.S. Department of Education, will join Lumina Foundation on Oct. 3 as vice president for public policy and executive director of Lumina’s Washington, D.C., office. Cooper has served in the Biden administration as deputy undersecretary, acting assistant secretary for […]
THE Plans New Methodology
The Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings have been very popular with the media and administrators of the traditional elite of global academia. They have, however, received little respect from active researchers. For some time, THE has been planning for a drastic overhaul of its methodology and is talking about World University Rankings (WUR) 3.0. […]
US News Publishes 2022-23 Rankings
The US News has been in the ranking business for nearly four decades. Despite significant criticism and methodological changes “America’s Best Colleges” has been closely followed by students, parents, and other stakeholders. Publication of the 2022-23 edition was overshadowed by the demotion of Columbia University from second place to eighteenth following accusations that it had […]
MOSIUR Rankings Show the Social Impact of BRICS Universities
The latest edition of the University Three Missions Ranking (MosIUR) now includes 1800 institutions. It provides an opportunity for universities outside the traditional elite to demonstrate their social impact. The ranking is based on three missions with the following indicators: Education; comprising international student contests, international students, budget to student ratio, and student to academic […]
URAP Field Rankings Find New Areas of Excellence
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is published by the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University, Ankara. The World Rankings now include 3000 plus universities ranked by six indicators derived from InCites: Articles, Citations, Total Documents, Total Article Impact, Total Citation Impact, and International Collaboration. It is a research-based global ranking. The recently published […]
Shanghai Rankings Complete Two Decades of Publication
The Shanghai Rankings, officially known as Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), are now published by an independent agency, the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. They are the oldest of the global rankings and, with a generally stable methodology based on six research metrics, can provide valuable insights into the evolution of higher education over the last […]
Webometrics Tracks Short Term Changes
The Ranking Web of Universities, better known as Webometrics, is published twice a year by the Cybermetrics Lab, a Spanish research group. The ranking is the most inclusive of those currently published, and now covers nearly 32,000 institutions. There are now three indicators: Visibility; the number of external networks linking to webpages (50% weighting) Transparency/Openness; […]
NTU Rankings Chart Long-Term
The NTU Rankings, officially known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, are now produced by the National Taiwan University. They are a research ranking with eight indicators grouped in three criteria: Research Productivity; including the number of articles over eleven years and in the current year Research Impact; including number of […]
Latest NIRF Rankings from India: Stark Regional Disparities
The latest National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings have been released by the Indian Ministry of Education. The NIRF was created in response to a growing dissatisfaction in India with the unreliability and lack of transparency of the better-known international rankings. It is based on the following parameters for the overall rankings: Teaching, Learning and […]