The web-based US News publication has just released data that looks at excellence from another angle by comparing the financial resources of universities, measured by spending per student on teaching-related activities, with their overall scores. The results are considered a measure of operating efficiency. Only those institutions in the top half of the ‘America’s Best Colleges’ rankings are ranked. More...

The 14th edition of the Financial Times European Business School rankings, which are restricted to postgraduate programmes, has just been published. The newspaper has also published top twenty rankings for Asia/Australia and the Americas. The general European rankings are a combination of rankings of MBA, Executive MBA, Masters in Management (MiM), and customised and open non-degree executive courses. More...

The Nature Index is a database of research articles published in high impact scientific journals chosen by an independent panel of experts. It publishes international tables and national supplements. More...

The second seminar of the IREG Engineering Ranking Group organized by IREG Observatory and hosted by the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute) took place in Moscow, 30 November - 1 December 2017 (the Group met first in Bremen, Germany in May 2017). The aim of the Seminar was to identify relevant indicators for engineering programs that will allow systematic comparison across universities offering engineering programs at both national and international levels. More...

The TOP 500 group has been tracking the growth of the world’s most powerful computer systems since 1993.  The current lists are compiled by Erich Strohmaier of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Horst Simon of NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Martin Meuer of Pometeus GmbH. More...

The Business of Fashion online magazine has produced its latest ranking of fashion schools. There are now three categories, Undergraduate Fashion, Graduate Fashion, and Graduate Business. The indicators are divided into three groups: global Influence, learning experience and long-term value. More...