By Paul Fain. LinkedIn has officially joined the jam-packed college rankings party. And with 313 million users, the job networking site has a big data sample both for creating the rankings and for marketing them. The new ranking system tracks the success of college graduates in eight broad career paths, adding weight for jobs deemed “desirable.” It lists the top 25 institutions in each career category. Read more...
The world university rankings were published today, with the California Institute of Technology maintaining its position as the top-ranked university worldwide. The Times Higher Education (THE) magazine has today published its 2014/15 world university rankings, placing the California Institute of Technology in top place for the fourth consecutive year. Read more...
By Graeme Paton. US and UK Universities dominate the Times Higher Education World University Rankings but institutions are starting to lose ground to East Asian rivals. Read more...
By Kim Thomas. Investing heavily in research and science has helped Switzerland move up the rankings. But as Kim Thomas explains, rankings don’t tell the whole story. More...
By . The California Institute for Technology has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year. How do other universities compare? The California Institute for Technology (Caltech) has been named the world’s best institution for the fourth consecutive year in the Times Higher Education’s annual league table. More...
By Australian Associated Press, theguardian.com. Eight Australian universities make the Times Higher Education World University top 200, but rankings editor warns deregulation may weaken second-tier institutions. More...
By Simona Chiose. Canadian universities are dropping in the world’s most watched international university rankings, raising questions about the country’s goals in funding postsecondary education, said the editor of the rankings.
Times Higher Education reveals the world’s top 400 universities overall and the top 100 in each of six specialist subject tables.
The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 powered by Thomson Reuters are the only global university performance tables to judge world class universities across all of their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The top universities rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.
You can view the full World University Rankings 2014-2015 top 400 below and explore the criteria used to assess the world’s greatest universities, while our in-depth analysis of the results shines more light on the data. More...
Indian universities have never done very well in any of the major university rankings. The Times of India reports the widespread belief that this is because “the ranking being skewed to technical and humanities universities and international parameters not being applicable to the Indian system.” Now, there is a move to create a new ranking designed specifically for Indian universities. An announcement was issued following a recent meeting of the Council of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs).
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A week after the publication of its World University Rankings, QS has revealed its list of the top universities founded within the last fifty years. Although there are representatives from a broad range of countries, these rankings are dominated by Asia. Universities concentrating on science and technology do particularly well.
The top five are:
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