By Josie Gurney-Read. Rankings looking at which universities have banned or actively censored ideas have been released today, where does your university rank. Read more...
UK dominates list of world's 'most international universities'
By Josie Gurney-Read, Javier Espinoza. Thirty-nine universities in the UK make the Times Higher Education top 100, with Imperial College London leading the way – see the top 100 here. Read more...
World’s most international universities 2016
By Ellie Bothwell. Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the top 200 most outward-looking institutions.
The best universities in the world are truly global institutions – ones that attract students and scholars from all over the world and collaborate with leading departments no matter where they are based. More...
Is benchmarking more useful than ranking?
By Francisco Marmolejo. It is beyond doubt that rankings have become a significant part of the tertiary education landscape, both globally and locally. They have risen in importance and proliferated in unimaginable ways. Rankings have become commercialised and, with this, so has the sophistication of the companies and organisations that rank colleges and universities. Read more...
UK dominates ranking of globally-focused universities
By David Jobbins. The United Kingdom has emerged as the country with the most-internationally focused universities in the world – with Australia a distant second and the United States hardly featured. Read more...
World University Rankings blog: time to submit your data
Brazil Measures Learning Gains at University
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the measurement of student learning outcomes as part of the evaluation of university quality. This discussion has been given urgency by findings that that a substantial number of American students appear to make little or no progress during their academic careers. More...
Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP)
The Graduate School of Informatics at the Middle EastTechnicalUniversity, Ankara, has published the latest edition of its University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP). The URAP gives considerable weight to quantity rather than quality so that the University of Toronto in second place and JohnsHopkinsUniversity in fourth are ahead of Yale in 20th and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 56th. More...
QS: Paris, Melbourne, Tokyo best student cities
By Natalie Marsh. Paris has been named the top city in the world for students for the fourth year in a row in the QS Best Student Cities 2016 rankings, which judge destinations based on their universities’ rankings, student mix, desirability, employer activity and affordability. More...
Emerging economies want world class universities too, and they’re doing all they can to get them
By Chris Parr. The BRICS and Emerging Economies rankings show the diversity of global HE, says Chris Parr. More...