The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), a member of IREG Observatory, organized in Budapest  (16 and 17 February 2018) a ranking workshop. Seven Hungarian research universities were represented at the workshop with the following goals: to present the changes of global rankings to the Hungarian universities in the light of the ranking experts’ experiences; to present the ranking strategies, particularities, ideas of Hungarian institutions of higher education to global ranking creators and experts; to support the international positions of Hungarian and Eastern European universities. More...

India has been concerned about the quality of its colleges and universities for some time. Although a few institutions have had some modest success in global and regional rankings, the country’s higher education system has failed to be competitive internationally, especially with Mainland and Greater China. More...

The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) Asian university rankings has just been published. This uses the same thirteen indicators as THE’s World University Rankings but they have been recalibrated to take account of regional priorities. The weighting for research and teaching reputation has been reduced and that for research income, research productivity, and research income from industry has been increased. More...

The Financial Times has issued the latest edition of its Global MBA Rankings. The USA continues to dominate the upper levels of the rankings although some Asian schools have made steady progress over the last two years. Data was collected for 155 schools that met minimum requirements for accreditation and the number of survey responses and 101 of these were included in the published rankings. More...