The latest edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities was published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. These rankings have used the same indicators since they began in 2003. More...

The Indonesian government has published a ranking of the country’s universities based on eleven measures of inputs, outputs and processes that include faculty with doctorates, faculty student ratio, number of published research papers and national accreditations. More...

The US News rankings, America’s Best Colleges, has had a dominant role in admissions to US colleges and universities for many years. It has, however, come under severe criticism from academics and the media. More...

China Daily has just published an interesting ranking that counts the number of billionaires produced by Mainland Chinese universities. The data is provided by the web site of the China University Alumni Association. The top university was Tsinghua University with a total of 152 billionaires. More...

The online magazine, PitchBook, has produced its latest annual report on universities that produce venture capital backed entrepreneurs.  The order of the rankings is not too different from a conventional research-based ranking of universities. Stanford, whose start-ups include Snap, Solyndra, Guardant Health, Opendoor and Sunrun, is in first place, followed by the University of California Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. All of the top twenty are US institutions, apart from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and two Israeli universities, Tel Aviv University and Technion. More...

The Russian RUR rankings agency has just published the latest edition of its international university reputation rankings. The data is collected through the Global Institutional Profiles Project now run by Clarivate Analytics. It includes 783 universities from 72 countries. Of these 140 are located in the US, one less than last year, 73 in the UK, 67 in Russia, 40 each in China and Japan, 36 in Taiwan and 26 in Australia.Survey respondents are restricted to those with publications in journals listed in the Web of Science. More...

This year’s winner is the State University of Campinas, Brazil, which pushes the University of São Paulo, also in Brazil, into second place. Eight countries and 81 institutions are represented in the rankings of which 32 are from Brazil, 15 from Chile and 13 from Mexico. There are two universities from Argentina in the table this year although the University of Buenos Aires, along with some other prominent Latin American institutions, is still absent. More...

The methodology of the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities has gone through several changes since the ranking began in 2004. There is a 50% weighting for Visibility, the number of external networks originating back links to the institution’s webpages (data from Ahrefs and Majestic), 35% for Excellence measured by the number of papers among the top 10% most cited in 26 disciplines over a five year period (data from Scimago), 10% for Transparency or Openness, measured by the number of citations from top authors (data from Google Scholar Citations), and 5% for Presence, measured by the number of pages of the main webdomain of the institution (data derived from Google). More...

The US education technology company, Hobsons, has released information about its survey of international students. Nearly a fifth of respondents said that rankings were the most important factor they considered when choosing a country in which study and 23.5% said it was most important for choosing a university. More...

The US business magazine Forbes has published the latest edition of America’s Top Colleges. These rankings, now in their tenth year, take a strict return on investment approach based on measures of output that indicate direct economic benefits for students. It says nothing about research, reputation or teaching quality. More...