The Best Global Universities ranking is entirely devoted to research. There are 13 indicators: Global research reputation (12.5%), Regional research reputation (12.5%), Publications (10%), Books (2.5%), Conferences (2.5%), Normalized citation impact (10%), Total citations (7.5%), Number of publications among the 10% most cited (12.5%), Percent of publications among the 10% most cited (10%), International collaboration (5%), Number of highly cited papers among the 1% most cited (5%), and Number of highly cited papers among the 1% most cited (5%). More...

The Russian 5-100 Academic Excellence Project is currently being reviewed. The object of this programme was to get five Russian universities into the top 100 of the global rankings.
At present Lomonosov Moscow State University, which is not part of the project, is the only Russian university in the top 100 of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings and the Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Rankings). It has also reached the top 200 of the Times Higher Education (THE) world rankings and the Round University Ranking published by a Russian agency. More...

The University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) has been published since 2010 by the Informatics Institute at Middle East Technical University in Ankara. It includes six indicators that measure research output and quality. More...

Accreditation and ranking have been, until recently, perceived as two separate areas in the sphere of evaluation of higher education, each serving a different purpose. This perception, however, is changing. Though the two still are very different and function separately, there are signs that the borders between accreditation and ranking are getting blurred. More...

The seventh World-Class Universities conference sponsored by Shanghai Jiao Tong  University opened on Tuesday November 7^th. The conference has become one of the key events of the international ranking calendar. This year’s theme is Towards a Global Common Good and Seeking National and Institutional Contributions. More...

The Center for World University Rankings, formerly based in Jeddah but now in the United Arab Emirates, has released its latest global rankings.
The methodology is quite distinctive. There are eight indicators that claim to measure the quality of education and training and the prestige of faculty members. More...

Times Higher Education (THE) has released a batch of four subject rankings: Education, Law, Business and Economics, and the Social Sciences. Education and Law are ranked separately for the first time this year.  It is noticeable that the top sections of these rankings are more varied than THE’s general world rankings. More...