IREG Ranking News
IREG has just completed a conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI) altering HE and Rankings in Bucharest, organized in cooperation with the Ministry of Education of Romania, SNSPA University, and sponsorship of Elsevier.
Brussels, 29 October 2024. Technical University of Denmark on the top spot followed by Delft University of Technology (Netherlands), and KU Leuven (Belgium) are best European engineering schools according to EngiRank 2024 created by “Perspektywy” Educational Foundation.
At the moment there are four agencies that publish rankings on university performance in the field of Artificial Intelligence: QS, US News (USN), University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP), and EduRank.
Times Higher Education (THE) have just published the latest edition of their World University Rankings (WUR). The University of Oxford remains at the top of the ranking, although there have been some significant changes further down.
The Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University has announced the release of the second open edition of Leiden Ranking. This is intended to be fully transparent, unlike the Times Higher Education World University published on the same day.
PitchBook is a financial data and software company with offices in the UK and the USA. It produces annual rankings of universities based on the number of alumni who have raised venture capital over the last ten years.
Round University Rankings (RUR) have announced the new edition of their subject rankings. The rankings are currently published in Tbilisi, Georgia.
The AD scientific index is produced by Murat Alper of the Sağlık Bilimleri University Istanbul and Cihan Döğer of the Ankara Provincial Directorate of Health. It is based on Google Scholar data and provides a variety of rankings of individuals and institutions, including research productivity, h-index, and citations.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) is published by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy and is the oldest of the current global university rankings.
The NTU Rankings, also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, started in 2007, and since 2012 have been published by the National Taiwan University.
University Ranking by Academic Performance is published by the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara. It is a research-based ranking that uses publicly available data from InCites.
The Global University Visibility Rankings are published by American Caldwell, a higher education market research group. They use a number of indicators of global branding: news mention, public interest, social media, website visitors, web references, online footprint, and video views.
No longer a science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) has invaded higher education on many fronts. Teaching has always been regarded a human domain, yet generative artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT seem ready to replace instructors.
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities is published by the Cybermetrics Lab of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Madrid.
The CWTS Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University. It provides data on academic publications by universities and, in recent years, has added tables on international and industrial collaboration, open access, and gender equity.