La sixième édition du classement international QS des universités par sujet, le QS World University Rankings par discipline, qui sort ce mardi 22 Mars 2016, propose 42 disciplines , ce qui en fait le classement le plus large à ce jour jamais réalisé. Les universités françaises prennent 3 des 10 places de tête de ce classement, pour une très belle performance. Voir l'article...
By . It’s ranking season once again! Yet, somehow every year the hype around the rankings seems to grow quieter and quieter. Perhaps it is because the rankings, or league tables, have reached a point where there are not many extreme changes to the list of ‘best’ universities. University rankings are not new phenomena. In fact, they have actually been around for over 100 years.
In 1910, an eminent psychologist by the name of James McKeen Cattell published the first academic ranking, American Men of Science. [i] This ranking focused on research reputation including ‘academic origin’ – ie where professors had studied. Subsequently, he ranked the leading academic institutions. And so began the rankings game.
A second era of rankings commenced in 1959 when research reputation factors began to dominate over academic origin.[ii] Rankings during this era were nationally based and some were even commercially produced, such as the US News & World report Best Colleges rankings. More...
U-Multirank, the largest global university ranking tool, will today give a voice to students by revealing the universities they have rated satisfactory for teaching and learning.
Based on a survey exclusive to U-Multirank of over 105,000 students around the world who have rated their own study programmes, the announcement will be made at today’s Annual General Meeting of the Erasmus Student Network in Warsaw, Poland. More...
Andhra Pradesh government on Thursday asked all the State-run universities to apply for international rankings. According to a GO issued here by the State government stated that the Andhra University had applied for and got rankings in QS International Ranking and the Times Higher Education Ranking 2015. More...
Warum das schlechte Abschneiden deutscher Unis beim internationalen Ranking kein Grund zur Besorgnis ist.
Im Zeitalter der Übertragung ökonomischer Prinzipien auf den Bereich der Bildung stehen Rankings und Leistungsvergleiche wenig verwunderlich im Vordergrund. More...
India has been late in embracing he concept of university ranking. The country has also been dismayed by the poor performance of its institutions in international rankings such as those published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy, QS and Times Higher Education. More...
The Valencia Institute of Economic Research (Ivie) and the BBVA (Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria) Foundation have released the fourth edition of the U-Ranking of Spanish universities. The ranking is based on indicators that measure Resources, Output, Quality and Internationalization in each of the three main university missions, Teaching, Research, and Innovation and Technological Development. A total of 48 public and 13 private universities have been included. More...
U Multirank shows that some elite universities have weak areas. Oxford and Cambridge both get a D for regional engagement, the National University of Singapore has Bs for number of research publications and co-publications with industry, Harvard a C for regional engagement, and Johns Hopkins University Cs for international orientation and regional engagement. More...
Nigeria, along with many other countries in Africa, has been concerned about its limited achievements in the global rankings. Recently, however, students, academics, administrators and the public have become more interested in the rankings produced by the National Universities Commission (NUC). More...
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released its latest subject rankings, which have aroused considerable public interest. There are now 42 subjects of which six have been added this year, Anthropology, Archaeology, Mineral and Mining Engineering, Nursing, Performing Arts and Social Policy and Administration. The rankings are based on four criteria: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per paper and H-index. More...
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