IREG Ranking News
Come to IREG 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10-11 December 2025. Listen to university leaders and top international experts on university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Isidro F. Aguillo (Spain) discuss how rankings can contribute to university excellence and the sustainability goals.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework was established by the Indian government in 2015, partly in response to dissatisfaction with the major global rankings.
PitchBook is a financial data and research platform, based in Seattle, London, and Singapore, with offices in New York and San Francisco. It is now owned by Morningstar Inc and publishes an annual list of universities whose alumni have raised venture capital.
IDP Education Limited is an Australian-based international company that specializes in student placement, language testing, and advisory services. Its web pages frequently refer to the global rankings published by Shanghai Ranking, QS, Times Higher Education (THE), and US News, in addition to the Complete University Guide and the Guardian University Guide. They have recently published a report on the use of rankings by international students.
Authors and analysts of global and regional university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Minchun Zh (China), Isidro F. Aguillo (Sain), top HE eperts and university leaders will discuss in Abu Dhabi rankings contribution to university excellence and sustainability.
The latest edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) shows an increasingly bipolar research world with China dominating engineering and the hard sciences while the USA and the UK still lead in the humanities and the social sciences.
The AD Scientific Index is a “real-time academic performance analysis platform” that publishes rankings based on Google Scholar profiles, which are more inclusive than Scopus or Web of Science.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), usually known as the Shanghai Rankings, are the oldest global university rankings. They are included among the three or four most well-known rankings and have a straightforward and stable methodology.
A recent article in Nature noted that there has been a massive increase in the number of retractions of papers in the life sciences.
The latest edition of the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) has been published. The web page has been discontinued, and the overall ranking can be obtained from the link below. Data on the metrics will be included later in a file available for a modest fee.
“Since its launch in 2019, the THE Impact Ranking has provided a valuable framework for evaluating universities based on their contributions to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG”s)” writes the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) in a letter addressed to Phil Baty, THE’s Chief Global Affairs Officer.
The Tongji University STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Education Think Tank in Shanghai has published a Global STEM Development Index, a “comprehensive evaluation tool for national and regional science, technology, engineering and mathematics education development.”
The UK Office for Students has published the data for the latest National Student Survey, which covers final year undergraduate students in the United Kingdom at all universities and a number of colleges. Participation was over 70%.
The UK Office for Students has published the data for the latest National Student Survey, which covers final year undergraduate students in the United Kingdom at all universities and a number of colleges. Participation was over 70%.
The Global University Visibility Rankings are published by American Caldwell, a higher education marketing research firm, currently based in Washington DC.