IREG Ranking News
The Global University Visibility Rankings are published by American Caldwell, a higher education marketing research firm, currently based in Washington DC.
Times Higher Education (THE) has announced a big rebranding and updating of its University Impact Rankings. Although the rankings, according to THE, have been highly successful and influential, data collection and processing of policy documents and research publications have become extremely complex and expensive.
In the 2025 ranking Kyiv Taras Shevchenko University is the winner followed by Lviv Polytechnic Institute and Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Given the importance of international collaboration for higher education in Ukraine, the weights of international performance indicators (results in global rankings) have been set higher than those of national indicators.
The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) University Impact Rankings has been announced. These rankings attempt to measure universities’ contribution and commitment to global sustainability and are aligned with the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UK, Japan, and Australia down, US, China, and Arab Region up. The latest QS World University Rankings have been announced. There is little change at the top where Massachusetts Institute of Technology continues to hold on to first place.
US News has released the latest edition of its Best Global Universities rankings. These rankings comprise 13 research-related indicators: Global research reputation, Regional research reputation, Publications, Books, Conferences, Normalized citation impact, Total citations...
Times Higher Education (THE) have just announced that they will be axeing some of their ranking products and making significant changes to others.
Emerging, A French based consulting firm, has just published a set of rankings of universities that contribute to the development of the global digital economy.
An article in University World News by Wagdy Sawahel has reviewed a paper published in the Journal of Technology Transfer, by Chiara Alberti, Alice Civera, Eric E Lehmann, Michele Meoli, Jonah Otto, and Stefano Paleari, and included in preprint form in Research Square.
The Center for World University Rankings, founded in 2012, is currently based in Sharjah, UAE, and has a distinctive methodology that assesses quality of education, quality of faculty and graduate employability, in addition to research output, quality and influence.
Last November NORC (formerly the National Opinion Research Center) at the University of Chicago published an updated methodological report on college rankings for Vanderbilt University, Tennessee.
US News & World Report has reported that Robert Morse has retired as Chief Data Strategist after half a century with the media company, which publishes America’s Best Colleges and Best Global Universities and several other rankings.
CodeSignal is a California-based company specializing in the training and assessment of software developers. Among its initiatives is the University Ranking Report, which is based on the General Coding Assessment, “the industry standard for evaluation of core programming and computer science fundamentals taught in most undergraduate programs in the US.”
In addition to rankings of universities based on web metrics, UniRank also publishes international rankings of universities that take into account their social media presence.
Such metrics are typically not regarded as reliable indicators of excellence.
An article in the South China Morning Post has reported a “seismic shift” in global scientific leadership and noted the rise of Chinese chemistry research and the contrasting decline or stagnation of the field in American and European universities.