With the fast development of science and technology, as well as the internationalization of scientific activities, international academic awards have been more and more popular and influential. Numerous international academic awards have been established to provide individuals with incentives and motivation for new academic work and to reward past excellent academic accomplishments.
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The purpose of the Guidelines is to provide recommendations for interpretation, use and application of rankings by potential interested parties including students and parents, institutions of higher education, policymakers, quality assurance and funding organizations, employers and the media. Specific recommendations have been formulated for each group of the stakeholders.

IREG Guidelines for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings in English (.pdf)

IREG Guidelines for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings in Chinese (.pdf)

IREG Guidelines for Stakeholders of Academic Rankings in Arabic (.pdf). more...

Academic rankings play ever increasing role as a barometer of quality of higher education institutions. The purpose of "IREG Inventory of National Rankings" is to collect and make available on the IREG Observatory website information on the current state and scope of this important group of rankings. Authors of national university rankings who want to be included into the Inventory are kindly requested to fill in the questionnaire. more...

Rankings and league tables of higher education institutions (HEIs) and programs are a global phenomenon. They serve many purposes: they respond to demands from consumers for easily interpretable information on the standing of higher education institutions; they stimulate competition among them; they provide some of the rationale for allocation of funds; and they help differentiate among different types of institutions and different programs and disciplines. more...

The purpose of the IREG Ranking Audit, conducted by independent experts, is to verify and attest that ranking under review is done professionally, with a transparent methodology, observes good practices and responds to a need for relevant information of various stakeholders, in particular students, higher education institutions, employers and policy makers. more...

From October 26th to 28th, the Global University summit BRICS was held on the premises of four top-ranked Moscow universities: MGIMO, Lomonosov Moscow State University, People’s Friendship University and MISA. The event was put together as part of the 2015 Russian presidency of BRICS with the support of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. More...

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) are expanding their range of ranking products. In addition to a ranking of new universities, they have published the pilot edition of their Graduate Employability Rankings. More...

University rankings have received a lot of attention lately in Australia. Seven of the elite Group of Eight universities have announced that they have not submitted data to the forthcoming Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) graduate employability rankings because of concerns about privacy, confidentiality and transparency. More...

The TOP500 list is a ranking of supercomputer performance compiled by Erich Strohmaier and Horst Simon of the NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Jack Dongarra of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Martin Meuer, Executive Director of the International Supercomputing Conference. More...

Times Higher Education (THE) has released the results of a graduate employability survey designed by a French company, Emerging, and administered by a German company, Trendence. More...