Recent global rankings have shown that the leading Mainland Chinese universities are catching up with or have overtaken the top Hong Kong institutions. The Shanghai rankings now put Peking and Tsinghua Universities in the 101-150 category ahead of the University of Hong Kong (UHK) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, both in the 151-200 band. Meanwhile the latest Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) rankings show Tsinghua in 25^th place, slightly ahead of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 28^th. According to the US News Best Global Universities, Peking is in 41st place, Tsinghua 59^th and UHK 64^th. More...

The US News have just produced the second edition of their Best Global Universities. These are very different from their famous rankings of US colleges and do not include any measures of teaching quality, selectivity or graduate outcomes.
There are 12 indicators relating to research, up from 10 last year, measuring global and regional research reputation (25% combined), publications (10%), quality of publications assessed by number and percentage in the 10 % most cited publications with a combined weighting of 22.5%, total PhDs awarded and total per staff with a combined weighting of 10% and international collaboration (10%). More...

Last year Times Higher Education (THE) ended its partnership with the media and data giant Thomson Reuters (TR) and began to process and analyse information from the Scopus database and to conduct its own academic reputation survey. In addition, THE have modified the citations indication by excluding several hundred papers with over a thousand authors, most of them in physics, and halved the impact of the regional modification that awarded a bonus to universities in low performing countries. More...