UBI Global is a group of entrepreneurs based in Sweden that focuses on university-based incubators. Its mission is to collect data on successful start-up companies and to improve the efficiency of business incubators and business accelerators through comprehensive benchmarking. Since 2013 it has published world and regional rankings in order to help university-linked incubation programs become more efficient and competitive. More...

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has been publishing subject rankings since 2011. The latest edition covers 48 subjects, including new rankings for Classics and Ancient History and Library and Information Management, plus five broad subject groups. These rankings are dominated by the USA and the UK, more specifically by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard, and Oxford, which are ranked in the first place for 14, 12 and 4 subjects respectively. More...

Swiss universities have an enviable reputation for academic excellence, one that is confirmed by the global rankings. ETH Zurich (Federal institute of Technology) is currently ranked tenth in the QS and THE World University Rankings and nineteenth in the Shanghai ARWU rankings. More...

The Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), a member of IREG Observatory, organized in Budapest  (16 and 17 February 2018) a ranking workshop. Seven Hungarian research universities were represented at the workshop with the following goals: to present the changes of global rankings to the Hungarian universities in the light of the ranking experts’ experiences; to present the ranking strategies, particularities, ideas of Hungarian institutions of higher education to global ranking creators and experts; to support the international positions of Hungarian and Eastern European universities. More...

India has been concerned about the quality of its colleges and universities for some time. Although a few institutions have had some modest success in global and regional rankings, the country’s higher education system has failed to be competitive internationally, especially with Mainland and Greater China. More...

The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) Asian university rankings has just been published. This uses the same thirteen indicators as THE’s World University Rankings but they have been recalibrated to take account of regional priorities. The weighting for research and teaching reputation has been reduced and that for research income, research productivity, and research income from industry has been increased. More...

The Financial Times has issued the latest edition of its Global MBA Rankings. The USA continues to dominate the upper levels of the rankings although some Asian schools have made steady progress over the last two years. Data was collected for 155 schools that met minimum requirements for accreditation and the number of survey responses and 101 of these were included in the published rankings. More...