IREG Ranking News
Emerging, A French based consulting firm, has just published a set of rankings of universities that contribute to the development of the global digital economy.
An article in University World News by Wagdy Sawahel has reviewed a paper published in the Journal of Technology Transfer, by Chiara Alberti, Alice Civera, Eric E Lehmann, Michele Meoli, Jonah Otto, and Stefano Paleari, and included in preprint form in Research Square.
The Center for World University Rankings, founded in 2012, is currently based in Sharjah, UAE, and has a distinctive methodology that assesses quality of education, quality of faculty and graduate employability, in addition to research output, quality and influence.
Last November NORC (formerly the National Opinion Research Center) at the University of Chicago published an updated methodological report on college rankings for Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.
US News & World Report has reported that Robert Morse has retired as Chief Data Strategist after half a century with the media company, which publishes America’s Best Colleges and Best Global Universities and several other rankings.
CodeSignal is a California-based company specializing in the training and assessment of software developers. Among its initiatives is the University Ranking Report, which is based on the General Coding Assessment, “the industry standard for evaluation of core programming and computer science fundamentals taught in most undergraduate programs in the US.”
In addition to rankings of universities based on web metrics, UniRank also publishes international rankings of universities that take into account their social media presence.
Such metrics are typically not regarded as reliable indicators of excellence.
An article in the South China Morning Post has reported a “seismic shift” in global scientific leadership and noted the rise of Chinese chemistry research and the contrasting decline or stagnation of the field in American and European universities.
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the latest edition of their Asian University Rankings. There are not many surprises in the overall tables but some scores for the Research Quality metric have aroused concern, especially in India.
QS have developed International Trade Rankings in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation. The rankings, published in February of this year, cover master’s and MBA programmes in international trade. There is also a table for executive MBAs. Twenty-eight countries are included although Latin America, Africa and the Middle East are not represented.
Shanghai Ranking Consultancy have announced the latest edition of their Best Chinese Universities Ranking (BCUR). The methodology is complex and very different from that of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). It varies according to the type of university.
US News have published the latest edition of their Best Graduate Schools, which have been eagerly awaited in the USA and beyond. The Law School and Business School rankings in particular are closely followed by students, teachers, and the media, and have often been the source of fierce controversy.
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the latest edition of their Japan University Rankings. These use a different methodology from the world rankings and are focused on teaching rather than research.
PS: Political Science and Politics, a journal published by Cambridge University Press, has just published an article by Joan Barceló, Chistopher Paik, Peter van der Windt, and Haoyu Zhai, ‘A Global Ranking of Research Productivity of Political Science Departments’.
Ivan Sterligov of E-Quadrat Science & Education, a Berlin based consulting firm, has developed a university ranking tool based on visits to Wikipedia, which is considered a valuable measure of public interest. The relevant metric is the median of pageviews for 12 bimonthly periods in 2023-24. The ranking includes degree granting institutions, some specialised post-secondary institutions, and even Eton College, a prestigious independent secondary school.