New Employability Ranking from Emerging
The latest edition of GEURS, or Global Employability University Ranking and Survey, has just been published by Emerging, a Paris-based consulting firm. It is based on a survey of international employers in 21 countries conducted by Trendence, an independent polling company and is published by Times Higher Education (THE). At the top, the California Institute […]
EngiRank stirs discussion on rankings
University World News published comments on the European Ranking of Engineering Programs – EngiRank – by British journalist Nic Mitchell. The author in an article Mixed reaction to new European engineering education ranking discusses reaction to the new ranking coming from European university rectors and experts on engineering education.
Ranking of Private and Public Universities in Southeast Asia
AppliedHE of Singapore have announced their rankings of private and public universities in ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations). The rankings include reporting and non-reporting institutions. The latter do not submit data and are evaluated by publicly available information. The criteria for private and public universities are: Teaching and Learning (40% weighting); student surveys and […]
Clarivate List of Highly Cited Researchers
Clarivate have released the 2023 edition of their list of highly cited researchers, comprising 6,849 individuals, representing the top one per cent of the world’s scientists by citation. The USA remains home to the largest number of highly cited researchers with a 37.5% share of the world total, representing a decline of 0.8 points. Mainland […]
European engineering education EngiRank 2023 published
The European Ranking of Engineering Programs or EngiRank – was inaugurated in Brussel 17th November in presence of universities and European engineering organizations. The top place went to the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) followed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) and KU Leuven (Belgium). engirank.eu Other universities in the top ten (including ex aequo): […]
MosIUR Rankings Measure Social Impact
The Moscow International Ranking (MosIUR), or the Three University Missions Ranking is published annually by a private non-profit organisation, the Association of Rating Makers. This ranking makes an effort to assess the social impact of universities in addition to their teaching and research missions. There are currently 16 indicators, grouped as follows: Education: Student competitions, […]
Statement on Global Rankings
The United Nations University International Institute for Global Health has just published a report on global university rankings prepared by an International Exprts Group composed mainly of academics and administrators. The statement focuses on “the longest-operating and the most influential ones”, specifically those produced by Quacquarelli Symonds, Times Higher Education, the ShanghaiRanking Consultancy and the […]
Clarivate Issues List of Nobel Standard Researchers
Clarivate recently published a list of researchers who, based on data supplied by the Institute of Scientific Information, have produced work of Nobel prize quality. Prizes are awarded in the disciplines of Physiology and Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. Judging from the current list, the old elite institutions continue to dominate scientific research at the […]
Utrecht University chose not to provide data for THE Ranking 2024
Utrecht University, one of the best universities in Europe has chosen not to submit its data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Ranking . The reasoning behind university’s decision is that “rankings put too much stress on scoring and competition, while we want to focus on collaboration and open science”. Utrecht University “advise […]
US News Changes Methodology
There have been significant changes this year in the methodology of the global rankings produced by QS and Times Higher Education. In addition, there have been some important developments in national rankings, especially the latest edition of America’s Best Colleges published by US News. For its latest edition US News has introduced several new indicators […]