Reuters has just produced the second edition of its list of the 100 most innovative universities in the world. The ranking is based on nine objective indicators: volume of patents, the proportion of patent applications that are successful, the percentage of patents filed with the European, Japanese and US patent offices, patent citation impact, the percentage of patents cited, the citation in patents of journal articles, impact on industry, percentage of articles with an industrial collaborator, and the total number of papers in the Web of Science core collection. More...

The most dramatic item in the 2016-17 edition of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings is the rise of the University of Oxford to first place replacing the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). More...

In recent years there has been a trend for government agencies around the world to use international university rankings to decide access to research funds, scholarships, exchange programmes and sometimes even to shape immigration policy. The latest example is Norway. More...

The latest university rankings from National Taiwan University, also known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, have been announced. In addition to an overall ranking of 500 universities there are six field and 14 subject rankings. More...

America's Best Colleges is a ranking published by US News since 1983 that continues to exert an unparalleled influence over the American higher education scene. The methodology, which has often been criticised, is designed to satisfy the needs of undergraduate applicants and other stakeholderswho are concerned with institutional reputation, teaching quality and graduate employability. More...

The Shanghai Rankings Consultancy has just released its broad subject rankings. The five tables are for Natural Science and Mathematics, Engineering, Technology and Computer Sciences, Life and Agricultural Sciences, Clinical Medicine and Pharmacy, and Social Sciences. More...

Educate to Career, Inc. (ETC), a California-based nonprofit, announces the release of its 2017 ETC College Rankings Index. Educate To Career offers educational attainment data to academia and colleges throughout the U.S. More...

U.S. News & World Report today announced the 2017 Best Colleges rankings to help students worldwide compare the academic quality of more than 1,800 U.S.-based schools. Princeton University remains No. 1 in the Best National Universities category. For the 14th consecutive year, Williams College takes the top spot on the Best National Liberal Arts Colleges list. More...