The authors argue that administrators and stakeholders “should look for rankings which are consistent over time, cover multiple areas of measurement and are less reliant on peer reputation” and that rankings that include self-reported data and reputation surveys are less helpful. More...
Artificial Intelligence Research in Southeast Asia concentrated in Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand
Clarivate Analytics has just published a report on research in artificial intelligence (AI) in Southeast Asia, which is based on citation and publication data derived from InCites. More...
University Incubator and Accelerator Rankings
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...
Is the Rise of Asia Stalling? Latest QS Subject Rankings
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...
Warning for Swiss Universities
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...
Pakistan Business School Accreditation
The National Business Education Accreditation Council (NBEAC) of Pakistan has released a list of business schools in the top category.
The council was established by the Higher Education Commission in 2007 and classifies business schools into three groups W, X and Y. W Category Business Schools are accredited for five years and have reached a score of 80% for the Council’s criteria. More...
More Quality Reforms for Russian Universities
Over the last few years, Russia has been concerned about the quality of its universities. The country has taken a keen interest in established global rankings and has started the 5 TOP 100 project to get five universities into the world’s top 100 universities. In addition, two new global rankings based in Russia, Round University Ranking and the Three Missions University Rankings, have appeared. More...
ELTE Ranking Workshop in Budapest
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...
Reforms Proposed for Indian Higher Education
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 Asian Rankings Show Progress by Chinese Universities
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...