Over 240 rectors, vice rectors and international officers representing 80 universities and 25 organizations supporting higher education came to the annual conference Foreign Students in Poland 2015 organized by Perspektywy Education Foundation and Rectors’ Conference (CRASP) and hosted by the Marie Curie-Sklodowski University in Lublin 22-23 January 2015. More...

New Zealand universities and higher education administrators have become increasing concerned about the country’s poor showing in the global rankings. The best performer is the University of Auckland which last year was in the top 100 in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings, the top 200 in both the Times Higher Education (THE) and the US News (USN) international rankings and the top 300 in the Academic Ranking of World Universities published by Shanghai Jiao Tong University. More...

The social media site LinkedIn has already produced rankings of universities according to the career outcomes of its members. In October of last year it published tables that showed student success in selected fields such as accounting, marketing and software development. Only three countries were covered, Canada, the US and the UK, but there was evidently potential for further development. More...

The Brookings Institute, the Washington based social science think tank, has produced new rankings of US colleges and universities. These are rather different from conventional rankings such as America’s Best Colleges published by the US News. The basic principle is to compare the career outcomes of graduates with those predicted by student characteristics and the type of institution. Data is derived from a variety of sources including LinkedIn, the Census Bureau’s American Community Survey and the labour market intelligence group, Burning Glass. More...

Times Higher Education (THE) has published its rankings of universities less than fifty years old. The rationale for these rankings is that the THE World University Rankings and other global league tables are necessarily biased to older universities that have had decades or even centuries to establish global reputations, accumulate endowments and establish research networks. More...

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have issued the latest edition of their World University Rankings by Subject. There has been a delay since there were questions about the first attempt earlier this year which led to substantial methodological revisions. These rankings are based on varying combinations of four indicators: a survey of academic opinion, a survey of graduate employers, citations per paper, and the h-index, a measure of quantity and quality of research. More...

We cordially invite you to IREG Observatory session on university rankings and internationalization at NAFSA 2015:
 Session GS-071, How National Rankings Can Serve as a Tool for Finding Partners Abroad, NAFSA, Wednesday, May 27, 1:15 PM – 2:15 PM.
Speakers: Waldemar Siwinski (IREG Observatory), Laura Rumbley (BostonCollege),
Alex Usher (HE Strategy Associates)
 Visit us at NAFSA Booth 2605, May 26-29, 2015.
To set a meeting please contact us at secretariat@ireg-observatory.org. More...