Nineteen universities and colleges in South Korea are slated for a reduction in government funding from the beginning of 2015, according to an article by Kim Bong-Moon and Yoon Suk-Man in the Korea Joongang Daily.
The Ministry of Education has decided that a number of the lowest ranked institutions will see their admission quotas reduced since there are too many universities in Korea.
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The US News and World Report has produced its latest edition of America’s Best Colleges. The list of national universities shows little change at the top. Princeton is in first place, Harvard second and Yale third, as they were last year.
Further down there are some changes. Chicago and Stanford have risen from equal fifth place to join Columbia at equal fourth. The University of Notre Dame has gone from 18th to 16th place and Purdue University from 68th to 62nd. The University of Illinois at Chicago dropped 21 places to number 149.
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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2014-2015 will be published on Wednesday 1 October 2014.
 
The World University Rankings 2014-2015 – including the world’s top 400 universities overall and the world’s top 100 in each of six specialist subject tables – will go live online at 21.00 BST on Wednesday 1 October and will be published as a special supplement of Times Higher Education magazine on Thursday 2 October.
The World University Rankings 2014-2015 will be the 11th in Times Higher Education’s annual World University Rankings series, which began 10 years ago in 2004.
The World University Rankings, powered by Thomson Reuters, are the only global university performance tables to judge world-class universities across all of their core missions – teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.
The rankings employ 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators to provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons available, which are trusted by governments, industry, university leaders and academics, as well as by prospective students and their families.

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The New York Times is preparing “a new ranking of colleges and universities based on their ability to attract underprivileged kids”. The background to the proposed rating is the concern that established rankings such as the US News and World Report’s (USNWR) America’s Best Colleges encourage universities to put too much emphasis on recruiting outstanding faculty and keeping class sizes low. As a result, institutions may neglect to provide adequate support for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Chronicle of Higher Education. More...

The Washington Monthly has published its College Guide, which is based on social mobility, research, and service.
The top five places in the National Universities category are:

The winners in the other categories are:

The social mobility criteria are: number of low income students (receiving Pell grants), cost, predicted and actual graduation rate. More...

Emerging, a human resources consultancy and Tredence, a research institute specializing in personnel marketing and recruiting conducted an online survey in 20 countries worldwide with the objective of describing the ideal university from a corporate perspective. Global Employability University Ranking is the list of the top 150 universities as selected by more than 5000 top international recruiters. More...