The ninth IREG conference opened yesterday at Hasselt University in Belgium. The theme of the conference is “Accreditation and Rankings: Two Roads to the Same Goal?” and speakers will examine the similarities and differences between rankings and accreditation at the global and regional levels. More...

The latest global rankings from the Center for World University Rankings have just been published. The Center is a private, non-profit group that was founded in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, by Nadim Mahassen in 2012 and originally ranked 100 global universities. The rankings are now published from the United Arab Emirates and cover 1,000 universities. More...

Prof. Luiz Claudio Costa has been elected the President and Waldemar Siwinski re-elected as Vice President of the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence. More...

University of Warsaw and Jagiellonian University in Krakow are the winners  in the Polish Perspektywy University Ranking 2018. They took ex-equo the first place in the ranking. Warsaw University of Technology is the third. More...

Times Higher Education (THE) have just announced the latest edition of their World Reputation Rankings. These are derived from a survey of published researchers of whom 10,162 replied, a slightly smaller number than last year. More...

The Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University in the Netherlands has just published the 2018 edition of their Leiden Ranking. They do not combine indicators to produce a single composite score but allow users to select from several indicators and apply filters for field, region or country, fractional counting, and threshold number of publications. More...

Universitas 21 is an international network of research intensive universities in Australia, Canada, Chile, China (including Hong Kong), India, Ireland, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, and the USA. The network supports various initiatives concerned with educational innovation, the student experience and researcher engagement. More...

In a new, major, qualitative report, top U.S. university MIT identifies Aalborg University’s engineering programs as a model for engineering programs worldwide. Aalborg University (AAU) engineering programs are number four in a new global report from MIT that analyzes the world's best engineering programs. More...

The Kazakhstan Prime Minister’s Office has released the latest edition of the national ranking of universities by the Independent Agency for Rating and Accreditation. The ranking, which was first published in 2014, attempts to measure academic mobility, the quality of students, teachers and researchers, the training and employment of graduates, collaboration between universities and employers, and scientific publications by faculty, doctoral candidates and undergraduates. More...

The website PayScale collects data on salaries for American employees and employers. Among its publications is the Return on Investment (ROI) report which ranks US colleges and universities according to the financial value of an undergraduate degree. The basic methodology is to compare the cost of attending college including wages lost with the financial rewards derived from a college education. More...