Latest THE Impact Rankings
The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings has just been released. This ranking attempts to assess universities’ commitment to meeting the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. The overall score combines one mandatory goal, Partnership for the Goals, and the best three scores for the other goals. The rankings now include […]
QS World Rankings: Chinese, Korean, Australian, and Indian Universities Rising
QS have released the 2025 edition of their World University Rankings. Chinese and Indian universities continue to rise while their British and American counterparts continue, with the notable exception of Imperial College London, to decline. There is a significant amount of volatility in these rankings partly because of the introduction of three additional indicators. The […]
Latest Round University Ranking (from Tbilisi)
The Round University Ranking was originally based in Russia but have moved to Tbilisi, Georgia. However, it still seems to be perceived as a Russian ranking since it has been subject to Western sanctions, including cutting off survey and bibliometric data from Clarivate. There are twenty indicators grouped into four categories: Teaching (40%); including academic […]
Report on University Rankings from South African
The Council on Higher Education, located in Pretoria, South Africa, has published a report on university rankings, which Sioux McKenna researched and drafted. The report focuses on five rankings: the Shanghai Rankings, the QS World University Rankings, Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings, Webometrics, and the National Taiwan University Rankings. Other ranking systems are […]
Latest Ranking from CWUR
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is now based in the United Arab Emirates. It publishes annual global rankings with seven indicators as follows: Education: alumni who have achieved academic awards (25% weighting) Employability: alumni who have held top positions in public companies (25%) Faculty: faculty members who have received academic awards (10%) Research: […]
Losers and Winners in the New THE Asian Ranking
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the latest results of their Asian University Rankings at a summit in Kuala Lumpur. These results reflect significant methodological changes to the world rankings and further adjustments to the regional rankings. The Asian rankings now have a “pillar” that combines the number of patents citing a university’s research with […]
What happens to universities that leave ranking?
In an article in University World News “THE’ rankings: What happens to universities that leave” Richard Holmes analyses what happens (ranking and reputation wise) to universities that decided to no longer provide their data to the THE’ WUR. Holmes focuses on technology universities in India to see if leaving THE ranking really hurts their standing […]
Shanghai Announces Best Chinese Universities
Shanghai Ranking has announced the latest edition of the Best Chinese Universities Ranking. The leader is Tsinghua University, followed by Peking University, Zhejiang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Fudan University. This order is the same as that of the 2015 ranking. The indicators used in this ranking, according to machine translation from Chinese, are: […]
Open Data and Global Rankings
Caroline Wagner’s article, originally published in The Conversation and republished in University World News, brings to light a shift in data collection and analysis. This shift, which is likely to enhance the international standing of Chinese universities, is largely attributed to the role of open databases. The author notes the bias towards Western and English-using […]
QS Subject Rankings: Excellent Performance from Harvard, MIT and Oxford
QS Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have announced the results of their World University Rankings by Subject 2024. These provide rankings of five broad and fifty-five narrow subjects. The methodology is somewhat different from the main world rankings published by QS. It does not include faculty-student ratio, sustainability, or international students and faculty. The five metrics used […]