IREG Ranking News
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.
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.
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 .
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of the Global University Employability Rankings which are produced by Emerging, a French human resource consulting company.
There have been significant changes this year in the methodology of the global rankings produced by QS and Times Higher Education.
The Global Innovation Index (GII) is published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), which is an agency of the United Nations. Its purpose is to develop an international Intellectual Property (IP) system.
Times Higher Education (THE) has just announced the latest edition of its world rankings. This has been billed as WUR 3.0 as there is now a new and very different methodology.
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in Seattle, London, New York, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Among its various activities is the publication of university rankings based on graduates who have raised venture capital during the last decade.
The NTU rankings, also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, began life in 2007 as a project of the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan (HEEACT), evaluating 500 international universities.
The Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, Netherlands, has announced that it will publish a new university ranking next year using open data and open algorithms.
In the last few years national and regional university rankings have become more prominent as interest in global rankings has receded. It is likely that there will be more national rankings if international student mobility continues to decline.
The Wall Street Journal has just published the 2024 edition of the Best Colleges in the USA. This year the partners are College Pulse and Statista. It seems that the partnership with Times Higher Education to produce a US ranking has ended.
Five new members from Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Uzbekistan joined IREG Observatory in August.
A study of the relationship between global rankings and national higher education initiatives and global rankings has been published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications by Congbin Guo, Peking University, Jiaqui Wu, China Agricultural University, and Tizhen Hu, Peking University.
The Shanghai Rankings, officially known as the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), are the oldest of the global university rankings and their methodology has remained stable over two decades, aside from some adjustments to the Highly Cited Researchers indicator.
In recent years there has been considerable concern about the impact of international rankings, especially the well-known ones, on higher education. This has led in some cases to announcements of a withdrawal of cooperation.