South-East Asian countries have become increasingly concerned with global university rankings over the last few years. Two Singaporean universities, the National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University have consistently performed well in the major rankings while Universiti Malaya and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (National University of Malaysia) have entered the top five hundred of the Shanghai rankings, although they have been criticised for avoiding the THE World University Rankings. More...

The Academic Ranking of World Universities, usually known as the Shanghai rankings, is generally considered the most reliable of the better known global league tables. It has a stable methodology and there is a modest amount of change from year to year. The top ten this year is almost the same as 2014. More...

The recent African Universities Summit at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, reflects a new interest in university rankings in Africa and also growing concerns about the quality of the continent’s universities. The release at the summit of a ranking according to a single indicator, field normalised citations per paper, showed that South African universities were well ahead of the rest of the continent with Egypt coming a distant second. There were, however, some unexpectedly strong performances from places such as the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria, the University of Nairobi, Kenya, and Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. More...

Japanese universities are facing a drastic overhaul, intended to convert them into either research orientated institutions competing in the world arena or providers of vocational education meeting local needs. One element of the proposed reform programme is an effort to get ten Japanese universities into the top one hundred of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. At the moment there are only two, Tokyo in 23^rd place and Kyoto in 59^th, although Tokyo Metropolitan University is first in the world for research impact, measured by citations. More...

There has been little change at the top since 2009. However, some Asian and European universities have registered substantial advances. Peking University has risen from 104^th to 38^th place, Seoul National University from 185^th to 46^th and Lomonosov Moscow State University from outside the top 500 to 138^th. More...

Best Chinese Universities Rankings (BCUR) was jointly announced by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy and Tencent in February 2015. BCUR employs nine carefully selected indicators to evaluate some one thousand Chinese universities, it provides not only an overall ranking but also three specific rankings, including Teaching and Learning Ranking, Research Ranking as well as Social Service Ranking. BCUR is completely transparent by publishing not only the detailed methodology but also raw data of all indicators. More...