Japanese Barbarians Out to Crush Humanities!

The international education media has been getting very excited recently about what appeared to be an extraordinary act of cultural vandalis...

Latest on the THE Rankings Methodology

Times Higher Education (THE) have now officially announced the methodology of next week's World University Rankings. There are some ch...

Looking Inside the Engine: The Structure of the Round University Rankings

Many of those interested in international university rankings have been frustrated by the lack of transparency in the Quacquarelli Symonds ...

Who's Interested in the QS World University Rankings?

And here are the first ten results (excluding this blog and the QS page) from a Google search for this year's QS world rankings. Compare...

Who's interested in the Round University Rankings?

The top results from a Google search for responses to the recently published Round Universities Rankings  New Ranking from Russia CEU Ranked...

Who's Interrested in the Shanghai Rankings?

First results from a Google search for responses to the latest edition of the Shanghai world rankings. Rad boud University: 132nd place on A...

The Italian Ranking Dance

As noted in the previous post, the latest QS world rankings have not been well received by the Italian blog ROARS . Their opinion of the rea...

Who believes QS?

From the Italian site ROARS: Return on Academic Research (Google translation): According to the ranking Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) in Siena ...

University Quality and Bias

Anticipating requests, here is the link for a significant paper by Christopher Claassen of the University of Essex. Measuring University Qua...

Auto-Induced Fly Catching

Taking a break from the most exciting or second most exciting educational event this month, I have just received a message from Google Schol...

Global Ranking From Russia

A very interesting new set of global rankings appeared seven days ago, the Round University Ranking from Russia . The organization is rather...

More on Alternative Indicators for Ranking African Universities

Continuing with our exploration of how to rank universities outside the world's top 200 or 400 where it is necessary to develop robust a...

Best German and Austrian Universities if you Want to get Rich

If you want to go a university in Germany or Austria and get rich afterwards, the website Wealth-X has a ranking for you. It counts the num...