IREG Ranking News
QS have just published the latest edition of their subject rankings, which are heavily biased towards research. The indicators, the weighting of which according to subject and field, are academic reputation, employer reputation, citations, H-index, and international research network.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) are published by the SCImago Lab, now part of a Spanish consulting company.
In recent years there has been much discussion about ranking universities according to their contribution to teaching and learning rather than their research prowess. Times Higher Education (THE) has produced three rankings that it describes as teaching-focused for the USA, Europe and Japan.
The latest edition of the THE Japan University Rankings has just been published. One significant feature is that some international universities have fared badly because of falling scores for international students, finance per student, or courses taught in a language other than Japanese. These include Akita International University, International Christian University, and Kyoto University of Foreign Studies.
The methodology is based on 16 performance indicators grouped under five pillars:
- Resources, including finance per student, faculty-student ratio, publications, research grants, and mock university exam scores
- Engagement, based on surveys of students and high school advisors
- Outcomes, based on academic and employer reputation surveys
- Environment, including international staff, students, and exchange programmes, and courses taught in foreign languages.
At the top of these rankings, changes have been limited. The top five universities overall this year are:
- Tohoku University, Miyagi
- University of Tokyo
- Osaka University
- Tokyo Institute of technology
- Kyoto University.
The top universities in each of the four pillars are:
Resources; University of Tokyo
Engagement; Akita International university
Outcomes; Kyoto university
Environment; Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Oita.
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A controversy has erupted following the publication of a report by Michael Thaddeus, a mathematics Professor at Columbia University, in New York City, who has argued that the University has submitted misleading data to the US News ranking of the country’s best universities.
U-Multirank is committed to the values of peaceful international exchange and cooperation, and strongly condemns the war against Ukraine.
by Higher Education Strategy Associates (HESA) has documented a dramatic shift in the global higher education world. The report, Higher Education: Institutions, Students and Funding, is analysed by Karen MacGregor in University World News.
QS, the international ranking agency, has published a statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and offering its support for Ukrainian and international students “through our counselling and mobility tracking services and signposting verified guidance.”
Times Higher Education (THE) has issued a statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and indicating a number of steps to be taken by its world and regional rankings.
Around the world, private institutions account for a large and growing part of the higher education sector. Unfortunately, most of them have been neglected by the mainstream global rankings which have tended to focus on large research-orientated universities.
Over the last two decades, the quality and quantity of scientific research in China has expanded rapidly, a trend that has been reflected in all the major global university rankings.
The volume and quality of publications and citations have been standard elements in the assessment of research for many years and are usually among the metrics in global university ranking systems.
The University of New South Wales, Sydney, has created an aggregate ranking that combines the results of three well-known global rankings to create an aggregate score, or Aggregate Ranking of Top Universities (ARTU).
Edward Elgar has published the Research Handbook on University Rankings: Theory, Methodology, Influence and Impact, edited by Ellen Hazelkorn, Professor Emerita Dublin Technological University, and Georgiana Mihut, University of Warwick.
The latest world rankings from the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) have just been announced. These are produced by the Cybermetrics Lab, a group that is part of the Spanish Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), and have the unique distinction of ranking anything with the slightest claim to being a university or college.
It seems there are growing concerns about the negative influence of international rankings in many parts of the world.