IREG Ranking News
An article in the New York Times by Amelia Nierenberg indicates that the current virus crisis has opened up a massive gulf between elite universities in the USA and less prestigious institutions lower down the global and national rankings.
There has been much discussion around the world about academic freedom and free speech on campus. There have been suggestions that academic freedom should be incorporated into rankings.
Predatory publishing has become a serious menace to research quality in the last few years. The situation has been made worse by universities’ perceived need to boost the number of their publications and citations in order to perform well in the global rankings.
Japanese research has been stagnant over the last few years and the country’s leading research universities have been pushed aside by the rising stars of Mainland China. The situation has been attributed, at least in part, to a lack of adequate research funding.
The latest edition of the Financial Times (FT) Global MBA rankings has just been published.
The website, Intelligent, has published a report comparing the performance of American states in various metrics.
AppliedHE, a Singapore based higher education website, has just published the first edition of Rankometer, a composition system that combines the results of five well known global rankings.
The current pandemic crisis has created massive interest in online teaching and learning. The US News ranking of online programs, which is now in its tenth year of publication, is therefore essential reading for students and other stakeholders.
The Ranking Web of Universities (or Webometrics) is one of the oldest of the current global rankings and the most comprehensive, now ranking over 30,000 institutions. It measures web activity and research output.
The latest edition of the Economist full-time MBA ranking has just been published. In 2019 it was dominated by prestigious US schools such as Chicago, Harvard, Northwestern, Pennsylvania, UCLA, Berkeley and Stanford.
The Trends in International Mathematics and Science Studies (TIMSS) is a series of international tests of science and mathematics knowledge conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA).
The Cybermetrics Lab, a research group affiliated to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Spain, has just announced the latest edition of its Transparent Ranking, which is currently in the Beta stage and which will be incorporated at the end of this month in the Ranking Web of Universities.
The Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin along with two German and one American universities have been measuring the level of academic freedom in 144 countries relaying on assessments of several thousand vetted experts across the world and an innovative statistical methodology.
Academic Influence is a site maintained by academics and data scientists with the objective of providing “an objective, non-gameable influence-based ranking for the people, schools, and disciplines that make up higher education.”
In recent years Chinese scientific research and higher education have developed dramatically. Chinese universities have risen rapidly through global and regional rankings and the number of papers and citations from researchers in places such as Zhejiang and Tsinghua is now approaching, or in some fields surpassing, that of elite western institutions.