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 […]
Rankometer Simplifies Global Rankings
Rankometer is a composite global university ranking produced by AppliedHE of Singapore. It combines the ranks of universities in five of the better-known rankings: Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, QS World University Rankings, the Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities, Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics), and Leiden Ranking (percentage of publications in top […]
Shanghai Subject Rankings: A Tripolar Research World
The Shanghai Ranking Consultancy have published the latest edition of their Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS). A total of 54 subjects in Natural Sciences, Engineering, Life Sciences, Medical Sciences, and Social Sciences. There are no rankings for the arts or humanities The methodology is based on the following indicators with weightings that are adjusted […]
The Economist Closes its MBA Rankings
The Economist has announced that its MBA ranking will be discontinued and that the website where it is published will be closed in September. An article by Marc Ethier in POETS & QUANTS reports that the ranking, which was suspended in 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic, was boycotted by some leading business schools […]
IREG welcomes new members from Tunisia, Poland and Germany
Three new members: University of Tunis El Manar (Tunisia), Rzeszow University of Technology (Poland) and “e-kvadrat” (Germany) were unanimously admitted as members of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence by the General Assembly that met in Warsaw, Poland on 24 June afterward the IREG 2022 Conference.