Times Higher Education (THE) has published the second edition of its Japan University Rankings. In joint first place are Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo while some less well-known institutions such as Akita International University, the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies and Nagoya University of Commerce and Business have performed well in the Environment group of indicators. More...

A new higher education rating system for India has just been announced. The QS I-GAUGE is a joint venture of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) and the ERA Foundation, Benguluru. It is currently in the pilot stage and is based on the QS Stars international audit system. More...

One of the greatest misapprehensions about rankings –wrote Alex Usher – is that rankers are “just doing it for the money”.  For the most part, this is wrong.  It’s really hard to make money at rankings. Not surprisingly, only about half of all rankings are done for commercial reasons. More...

The US News has just published its 2019 rankings of US graduate programmes in six disciplines: business, education, engineering, law, medicine, and nursing. More rankings of doctoral programmes in fields such as biological sciences, chemistry and computer science will follow later in the year. More...

A total of 23 countries are represented here. The largest number of institutions are located in the United States and there are nine in Japan and the Netherlands, eight in the UK and Canada, four in Australia and Portugal, and three in Sweden, Germany, Italy and France. There are none in Africa, the Middle East, Russia or China and only one in Latin America. Three multinational organisations, Google, IBM and Ubisoft, are included. More...

University rankings have tended to emphasise research or indicators such as resources, selectivity and reputation. In addition to research the Washington Post college rankings in the USA attempt to measure contributions to the public good. Indicators include the number of students joining the Peace Corps and Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), federal funds spent on service, graduation rates, and the percentage of students receiving Pell grants. More...

Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) is an international project to enhance the dissemination of research in economics. It is responsible for the maintenance of IDEAS, a database of papers, articles, preprints and other documents and software. IDEAS publishes several rankings of authors and institutions classified by field, country and region. The are several sub-rankings such as women and young economists. More...