IREG Observatory

Nigeria Expands Scope of Academic Rankings

Nigeria has been passionately concerned with university rankings for the last two decades. The Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) and the Times Higher Education (THE) and QS rankings are avidly followed.

The World’s Top Entrepreneurial Universities

PitchBook is a financial research platform specializing in private venture capital. It publishes rankings based on the number of university graduates who have raised venture capital.

Latest Taiwan Rankings

The National Taiwan University rankings, formerly known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, have been published exclusively by the National Taiwan University since 2012. They are based on publicly available data for articles and citations.

Shanghai Rankings: Stability and Movement

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), usually called the Shanghai Rankings, is the oldest global university ranking. It is often counted among the three or four most well-known rankings and has a transparent and stable methodology.

Webometrics Ranking: Beware of Fakes

The latest Ranking of World Universities (Webometrics) which is published twice a year has been announced. The genuine summary rankings are available at figshare, and the detailed tables are available on application to the Cybermetrics Lab IPP-CSIC, Madrid.

THE Introduces New Sustainability Ratings

Times Higher Education (THE) have announced a new edition of their sustainability rankings, now renamed the Sustainability Impact Ratings. The eventual plan is that THE will move from the ranks and scores provided by the current “gold standard framework”, to “presenting the congested numerical score data in banded groups”, although the date for the transition has not been decided.

URAP 2026 Ranking

University Ranking by Academic Performance is a research based global ranking that uses objective publicly available data. It has been published since 2010 by the Informatics Institute at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara.