Times Higher Education (THE) has released the latest edition of its World University Rankings. The result that has received the most publicity is the rise of Cambridge to second place so that with Oxford at the top there are now two British universities occupying the top two places. THE reports that the rise of Cambridge was due to a rise in research quality and research income while rivals Caltech and Stanford suffered because of falling institutional income and a relative decline in doctoral degrees awarded. More...
Latest Nature Index Ranking Released
The Nature Index is a database of information about the authors of research articles in 68 leading international journals. It is updated monthly and the journals included are selected by two panels of experts, Physical Sciences headed by John Morton of University College London and Yin-Biao Sun of King’s College, London. More...
Princeton Remains on top of America’s Best College
The US News has just published the latest edition of America’s Best Colleges. Princeton continues to hold first place among the best national universities and Williams College is first among national liberal arts colleges. More...
QS Graduate Employability Rankings: Strong Performances by Chinese and Japanese Universities
The QS Graduate Employability Rankings are an attempt to measure the value of a university degree in terms of graduate employment and outcomes. More...
Latest Edition of the Shanghai Rankings
The latest edition of the Academic Ranking of World Universities was published by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. These rankings have used the same indicators since they began in 2003. More...
Indonesia Publishes New University Ranking
The Indonesian government has published a ranking of the country’s universities based on eleven measures of inputs, outputs and processes that include faculty with doctorates, faculty student ratio, number of published research papers and national accreditations. More...
Indian Suspends Plan for Foreign Universities
The Indian central government has suspended its plans to allow international universities to set up branch campuses offering their own degrees in the country. Instead it will focus on transforming local institutions into world-class universities. More...
A Critique of College Rankings
The US News rankings, America’s Best Colleges, has had a dominant role in admissions to US colleges and universities for many years. It has, however, come under severe criticism from academics and the media. More...
China Billionaire Alumni Ranking
China Daily has just published an interesting ranking that counts the number of billionaires produced by Mainland Chinese universities. The data is provided by the web site of the China University Alumni Association. The top university was Tsinghua University with a total of 152 billionaires. More...
North America Dominates Start Up Ranking
The online magazine, PitchBook, has produced its latest annual report on universities that produce venture capital backed entrepreneurs. The order of the rankings is not too different from a conventional research-based ranking of universities. Stanford, whose start-ups include Snap, Solyndra, Guardant Health, Opendoor and Sunrun, is in first place, followed by the University of California Berkeley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard. All of the top twenty are US institutions, apart from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and two Israeli universities, Tel Aviv University and Technion. More...