The Times Higher Education BRICS Plus Rankings 2014-15

The Times Higher Education BRICS Plus Rankings 2014-15 has been published in Study International.

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Is Asia really rising?

Over the last few years there has been a lot of talk about the continuing rise of Asian universities. In T he Conversation,  Gerard Postigli...

One Way of Rising in the Rankings

One way of rising in the rankings is to amalgamate. Watch out for Paris-Saclay in next year's Shanghai rankings. From BBC Online News: ...

Ranking Status Wars 4

Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, scholarships granted under the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Programme will go to students at 200 scientific...

Ranking Status Wars 3

The US News and World Report's Best Global Universities has been admitted to the ranks of the elite rankings. The Hong Kong government...

More on the Ranking Status Wars

The Economist thinks there are two international university rankings worth talking about . Will the prestigious THE rankings continue to be ...

The Times [Higher Education rankings] they are a-changing

Maybe I'll get my five minutes of fame for being first with a Dylan quotation. I was a bit slow because, unlike Jonah Lehrer, I wanted t...

The US News Arab Region Rankings

Hardly a week passes without the publication of yet more international university rankings. This week it was the Best Arab Region Universiti...

The Taiwan (NTU) Rankings

These rankings are entirely research based and make no attempt to measure teaching quality. They also have a very strong bias against the hu...

Initial Comments on the US News Global Rankings

It was a bit of a surprise when US News & World Report (USNWR) announced that they were going global but perhaps it  shouldn't have ...

The university rankings business gets bigger and bigger

US News is going global. There are three different Arab/ MENA rankings on the way. Now, QS is getting ready for further growth. This is from...

Shanghai without the Awards

Updated. The link to the site is here . The Center for World-Class Universities (CWU) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University has produced an inte...

Another Global Ranking

Just when you thought you could stop reading about rankings. For several years the US News & World Report (USNWR), publishers of America...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Publisher Times Higher Education Scope Global. Data provided for 400 universities. Over 800 ranked. Top Ten Place University 1 California In...

How to win citations and rise in the rankings

A large part of the academic world has either been congratulating itself on performing well in the latest Times Higher Education   ( THE) wo...

Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa: Are they dancing in the streets?

There is a lot of coverage of that huge pocket of excellence in Italy at ROARS:Return on Academic Research . Still trying to make sense of t...

The university with more research influence than.....

With apologies to the Sydney Morning Herald which had a headline about Caltech. I don't know if the people of Valparaiso are aware that...

Which universities have the greatest research influence?

Times Higher Education   (THE) claims that its Citations:Research Influence indicator, prepared by Thomson Reuters (TR), is the flagship of ...

What good is reputation?

There is an excellent analysis by Alex Usher of Higher Education Strategy Associates of the reputation indicators in the THE and QS world r...

Ranking Status Wars

It looks like Times Higher Education is pulling ahead of QS in the ranking status war. From Asahi Shimbun in Japan: "Only the Univers...

How the Universities of Huddersfield, East London, Plymouth, Salford, Central Lancashire et cetera helped Cambridge overtake Harvard in the QS rankings

It is a cause of pride for the great and the good of British higher education that the country's universities  do brilliantly in certain...

Using Ig Nobel awards for ranking countries

Since 1991 Improbable Research has awarded prizes for research that makes people laugh and then think. Highlights this year include dung be...

The Uses of Rankings

It is getting difficult to avoid university rankings. They seem to be everywhere, with advertisements in railway stations in the English Mid...

Reactions to the QS Rankings 2014

Here is a selection of headlines and quotations about the latest QS world rankings from around the world. 'Australian National Universit...

QS World University Rankings 2014

Publisher QS ( Quacquarelli Symonds) Scope Global. 701+ universities. Top Ten Place University 1 MIT 2= Cambridge 2= Imperial College London...

What makes a world-class university?

According to Times Higher Education , a world-class university, one that is in the top 200 of the THE World University Rankings: has a lot o...