New Ranking of Arab Universities
The first edition of the Arab Ranking of Universities has been published. This ranking is produced by the Arab Ranking of Universities Council, which is sponsored by the General Secretariat of the Arab League, the Arab League of Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organisation, and the Association of Arab Universities. The largest number of universities is […]
URAP Announces New Ranking
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) is published by the URAP Research Laboratory at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara. It is a research-based ranking that uses data from InCites and now ranks 3000 universities. There are three Mainland Chinese universities in this year’s top ten and twenty-three in the top one hundred. The […]
Revised edition of IREG Guidelines for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings published
The public has the right to an independent, outside opinion on higher education. Rankings are a source of such independent information. While rankings popularity has been steadily growing, some universities find it difficult to accept the idea of outside assessment. This is one of the reasons why IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence published […]
Publication of UI GreenMetric Results
The UI GreenMetric University Ranking is produced by Universitas Indonesia and assesses university contributions to sustainability. It began in 2010 with 95 universities and now covers 1185 institutions in 84 countries. The 2023 UI GreenMetric Rankings was announced in Dubai on December 5th, 2023. There are six indicators based on data submitted by universities: Settings […]
QS Announces Sustainability Rankings
QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) have just published the second edition of their World University Rankings: Sustainability, which attempt to measure the ability of universities to deal with issues relating to the environment, society, and governance. There are over fifty metrics distributed among three lenses as follows: Social Impact (weighting of 45%); including Equality, Knowledge Exchange, Impact […]
Central Asia seeks cooperation with Europe in engineering education
7-8 December in Almaty, Kazakhstan experts on accreditation and rankings of engineering programs from countries of Central Asia met with their European counterparts at a conference “Central Asia – European Union: promising areas of cooperation in improving the specialist training quality”. At the conference Waldemar Siwinski, President of IREG Observatory presented (online) the main points of the new […]
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 […]