IREG Ranking News
As universities seek to redefine themselves or change their priorities, rankings will follow suit – writes Richard Holmes, an expert on academic rankings in the latest edition of University World News.
University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) was first published by the Informatics Institute of the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, in 2009.
In recent years many countries including Germany, Russia, China and India have introduced policies to improve the quality of research and higher education by concentrating resources on a relatively small group of elite institutions.
The international projects centre ”Euroosvita” has published the fourteenth ranking of higher education institutions of Ukraine “Top-200 Ukraine 2020”.
Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University (the Netherlands).
The Scimago Institutions Rankings are produced by the Scimago Lab and analyse data relevant to scientific and online reputation.
The Executive Committee of IREG Observatory met online 30 June.
ShanghaiRanking have just produced their latest rankings of universities by subject. These cover 54 subjects in Engineering and the Natural, Life, Medical and Natural Sciences.
Top 500 is a ranking of the world’s most powerful computer systems and is published twice a year. The current authors are Erich Strohmeier and Horst Simon of NERSC/ Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Martin Meuer of Prometeus GmBH.
The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) 2020 has been released by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.
The European University Association (EUA) is an organisation of over 800 European universities that seeks to represent higher education with regard to EU policies on education, research and innovation.
India has never done well in any kind of international education comparison, but Indian universities have done especially badly in global university rankings. There are some plausible reasons for this.
The latest edition of U-Multirank has been published. This is not a conventional ranking but rather a tool that allows prospective students and other stakeholders to select metrics relating to research, teaching and learning, knowledge transfer, regional engagement, and international orientation and to make comparisons or construct their own rankings.
Among the highlights of the latest QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World University Rankings are a further decline of British universities while those in Malaysia continue to make remarkable progress.
The Center for World University Rankings is now based in the United Arab Emirates, having migrated from Saudi Arabia. It has a distinctive methodology based on public information rather than surveys or data submitted by institutions.