IREG Ranking News
Times Higher Education (THE) has just published the second edition of their China Subject Rankings. These are based on the classification of subjects by the Chinese Ministry of Education.
The Nab’a Al-Hayat Foundation of Iraq has just announced the publication of its national university rankings. These provide data going back to 2008, when there is data for only two universities, the University of Baghdad and the University of Mosul.
The publication of three papers in the last few days has drawn attention to the issue of conflict of interest in the ranking of global universities.
The latest edition of the rankings published by the Center for World University Rankings has just been published. These rankings are unusual in that they attempt to measure faculty and graduate quality.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published its latest Impact Rankings. These measure the contributions of universities to meeting the 17 sustainable development goals announced by the United Nations.
In 2019 the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in South Africa evaluated the research output of local universities. An article in the Mail & Guardian by Tawana Kupe has analysed the report.
The Academic Freedom Index is published by the Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi).
The IREG family has gain four new members: Al Maarefa University (UM), Riyadh – Dariyah, Saudi Arabia, Medical University of Warsaw (WUM), Warsaw, Poland, Kazakhstan Association for Engineering Education (KazSEE), Almaty, Kazakhstan, and American University of the Middle East (AUM), Egaila, Kuwait.
The Scimago Institutions rankings are produced by the Spanish National Research Council. They have a distinctive methodology with three sets of indicators clustered in three groups.
US News has just published its latest American graduate school rankings. As usual, they have attracted a lot of attention from potential graduate students and the general public.
The Working Group of the Conference of Italian University Rectors has published a report on international rankings edited by Mirko Degli Esposti of the University of Bologna and Giulio Vidotto of the University of Padua with contributions and analysis from a variety of researchers and academics.
An article in Nature Index by Bec Crew has reviewed the annual ranking by Google Scholar of the most influential papers published in 2020.
Times Higher Education (THE) has published the latest edition of its Emerging Economies Rankings.
In recent years global rankings by subject have become popular, providing students and other stakeholders with a more relevant and finely grained approach to comparative assessment.
The Executive Committee of IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence at its March 4th meeting announced two major events in 2021.