Elsevier Updates Ranking Guide
Elsevier has issued an updated (August 10) edition of its guide to university rankings for research leaders. It contains some basic information that might be helpful to university administrators and advisors responsible for international policy. It notes that university rankings are “diverse, imperfect and influential” and includes a list of 19 global rankings. It should […]
Shanghai Rankings 2021
The latest edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities, also known as the Shanghai Rankings, has been published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. This is the oldest of the global university rankings and is based on six research indicators derived from publicly accessible sources: Alumni who have won Nobel prizes or Fields medals (10% […]
Japanese Institute Declares China has Overtaken the USA for Research
Articles in NHK World and The Asahi Shimbun have noted a recent report from Japan’s National Institute of Science and Technology Policy which finds that China has overtaken the United States in the production of research in the natural sciences. The analysis is based on data from Clarivate Analytics and show that in the period […]
Debate on Rankings in Business Insider
The website Business Insider has recently published an article by Walt Hickey that is critical of the America’s Best Colleges rankings published by US News. The article argues that these rankings, first published in the 1980s, put too much emphasis on the test scores of incoming students, which was a bogus measure of quality that […]
Best US Universities for Coders
CodeSignal is a technical assessment platform that has just released its first university ranking report based on the coding skills of Computer Science students in the USA. The report presents the top 30 universities where students get top scores in CodeSignal’s General Coding Assessment (GCA), which is taken by about half of all US Computer […]
Webometrics Ranks Over 30,000 Universities
The Ranking Web of Universities, also known as Webometrics, is produced by the Cybermetrics Lab which is affiliated to the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). It now ranks universities by web activity and the quality of scientific research. Currently over 30,000 institutions are given a score. There are three indicators in the latest […]
Eurasian University Ranking (IAAR-EUR) – 2021 from Kazakhstan
The Independent Agency for Accreditation and Rating has published the International Ranking of Higher Educational Institutions of the Eurasian Region. It is calculated based on indicators in four directions: quality of education, scientific potential, international recognition and academic. The ranking covers universities of Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, and Moldova The results of the […]
Latin American Ranking from THE
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of their Latin American rankings. These are based on the methodology of the THE World University Rankings but with significant modifications. The weighting for the citations (research impact) indicator has been cut from 30% to 20% and redistributed to Teaching: the Learning Environment (now 36%) and […]
Poland chapter of IREG Observatory met in Warsaw
Nine members of IREG observatory in Poland including top rated universities in the country represented by rectors and vice rectors met at a dinner in Warsaw on July 14 to share their experience on international rankings. They also discussed plans to hold the IREG annual conference in Warsaw in 2022; it will be a jubilee […]
URAP Shows Asian Dominance of Engineering
The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is published by the Graduate School of Informatics at Middle East Technical University, Ankara. The latest rankings show that Asia, especially Mainland China, has a commanding position with regard to engineering subjects while the USA and Western Europe continue to do well in the life sciences, social sciences […]