IREG 2021 Conference on rankings and university’s social engagement
The two day virtual IREG 2021 Jeddah Conference – Effects of Rankings on Community and Society 15-16 November
Highly Cited Researchers Lists Identify Top Global Scientists
Clarivate has published their annual list of highly cited researchers who are the leaders in 21 fields or across fields. Altogether there are 6602 researchers. The discipline with the most listed researchers is Clinical Medicine with 453 followed by General Social Sciences with 263 and Chemistry with 240. These lists are very influential and closely […]
Carnegie Classification System Under Fire
The Carnegie classification system was first published in 1973 by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and is now administered by Indiana University. The classification was based on the insight that the missions of colleges and universities in the United States are very diverse and that they should not be judged by the same standards. […]
Jordan – rankings as a way of improving the quality of university
The Arab World has not performed well for scholarship and scientific research in modern times. In recent years a few universities in Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, and Lebanon have begun to produce a significant amount of research but in general the region has lagged well behind Europe and East Asia. According to a report in […]
US News Best Global Universities Rankings Highlight US-China Rivalry
The latest edition of Best Global Universities has just been published by US News. This is a research-based ranking that uses data derived from InCites and Web of Science. There are 13 indicators: Global research reputation, Regional research reputation, Publications, Books, Conferences, Normalized citation impact, Total citations, Number of publications among 10% most cited, Percentage […]
Business Education Moves East
The latest Financial Times (FT) ranking Executive MBA programmes indicate that the global center of gravity for business education is moving eastwards. One remarkable feature of this year’s ranking is that four Fudan University programmes were in the top fifty: Fudan EMBA, Washington University-Fudan University EMBA, University of Hong Kong-Fudan University IMBA, and BI Norwegian […]
THE Emerging Economies Rankings Dominated by China
The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) Emerging Economies Rankings has been announced. This includes institutions in those countries that the London Stock Exchange considers advanced emerging, secondary emerging, or frontier. The rankings use the same thirteen indicators in THE’s World University Rankings but with modified weightings to reflect the needs of emerging […]
Carnegie Classification System Under Fire
The Carnegie classification system was first published in 1973 by the Carnegie Commission on Higher Education and is now administered by Indiana University. The classification was based on the insight that the missions of colleges and universities in the United States are very diverse and that they should not be judged by the same standards. […]
QS Arab Region Rankings: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and UAE Perform Well
QS has released a new edition of their Arab region rankings. These contain ten indicators, some original and some derived from the World University Rankings. The top spot overall is held by King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Other Saudi universities with high scores are King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, King Saud […]
Maclean’s Canadian Ranking
The latest edition of Maclean’s annual ranking of Canadian colleges and universities has been published. This ranking group colleges and universities into three categories: Medical doctoral schools which include institutions with doctoral programmes and medical schools Comprehensive schools which have a significant amount of research activity and offer postgraduate programmes including professional degrees Primarily undergraduate […]