The seventh edition of QS University Rankings: Asia, the first regional variant on the QS World University Rankings. Discover which are the top 250 universities in one of the most dynamic regions in the world.

Contents:

• Methodology
• Asia’s Top Universities connect to the English-speaking world
• QS University Rankings: Asia – Top 250
• The Elephant VS the Dragon
• QS Stars: a tool to help students select the university that’s right for them. More...

Find the latest results of the QS University Rankings – Latin America and discover which are the best institutions in this dynamic and increasingly influential region.

Contents:

The report includes data and insights about Latin America’s leading overall universities and the best universities as voted by academics and employers.

• Brazil becomes the higher education pole center in Latin America
• Methodology
• 2015 QS University Rankings: Latin American – Top 250
• QS Stars: A tool to help students select the university that’s right for them. More...

By Cathleen O'Grady. Even the most stringently controlled surveys have some degree of bad data.
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a Big Deal. It's a study run by the OECD every three years to see which country provides the best education in reading, mathematics, and science. The results from PISA are used to set school policies and rank international schooling systems, and the results are the subject of scrutiny, self-flagellation and celebration. More...

A parallel system of ranking universities on research and quality of teaching should be introduced for fairer assessments according to David Willetts, the UK’s former Minister of Universities and Science. More...

By Isobel Leybold-Johnson. In its report, Universitas 21 (U21), a group of research universities, placed Switzerland second out of 50 countries – ahead of such nations as the United Kingdom (ranked eighth). The United States topped the list, according to the data released on May 21. More...

The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015 offers key insights into the scientific performance of 750 major universities worldwide. A sophisticated set of bibliometric indicators provides statistics on the scientific impact of universities and on universities’ involvement in scientific collaboration. The CWTS Leiden Ranking 2015 is based on Web of Science indexed publications from the period 2010–2013.
Differences with other university rankings
Compared with other university rankings, the Leiden Ranking offers more advanced indicators of scientific impact and collaboration and uses a more transparent methodology. The Leiden Ranking does not rely on highly subjective data obtained from reputational surveys or on data provided by universities themselves. Also, the Leiden Ranking refrains from aggregating different dimensions of university performance into a single overall indicator.
Improvements and new features
Compared with the 2014 edition of the Leiden Ranking, the 2015 edition includes a number of enhancements. First of all, the 2015 edition offers the possibility to perform trend analyses. Bibliometric statistics are available not only for the period 2010–2013 but also for earlier periods. Second, the 2015 edition of the Leiden Ranking provides new impact indicators based on counting publications that belong to the top 1% or top 50% of their field. And third, improvements have been made to the presentation of the ranking. Size-dependent indicators are presented in a more prominent way, and it is possible to obtain a convenient one-page overview of all bibliometric statistics for a particular university. More...

By Charlie Mathies. It’s that time of year when specialised global university rankings are being revealed. Last week Times Higher Education (THE) released their reputational rankings, and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) just publicised their world rankings by subject (academic disciplines). U-Multirank also released their ‘readymade’ rankings last month and will soon divulge their overall 2015 rankings. For each ranking there are differences in where a university may place, but why is this? It comes down to three main things:  the ‘who’, the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of global university rankings. More...