Planned MENA ranking “must reflect distinctive missions of institutions in the region”

A new ranking of universities in the Middle East and North Africa must reflect the distinctive missions of institutions in the region, a conference heard.
Times Higher Education is planning to publish its first full ranking of the region’s universities at the THE MENA Universities Summit in the UAE in February next year, building on the flagship World University Rankings. These measure institutions’ performance on a range of measures such as reputation, research impact, teaching environment and internationalisation.
THE’s inaugural MENA Universities Summit in Qatar was told that a bespoke range of metrics would be used to compile the regional league table. More...