IREG Ranking News
The Financial Times Business School Rankings are published annually and include Online MBA, Executive Education Custom, Masters in Finance pre-experience, Masters in Management, and MBA rankings.
“Paper Mills” and the Research Integrity Index from LeidenLeiden Madtrics, a platform of the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, has published an opinion essay by Lokman Meho, University Librarian and Professor at the American University of Beirut.
The SCImag0 Institutions Rankings are published by the SCImago Research Group, which comprises the Spanish National Research Council and several Spanish universities. They are noteworthy for including data on innovation and societal impact and for assessing over 10,000 institutions including universities, government agencies, health organisations, companies and non-profit groups.
MeasuresHE is a data platform founded by David Watkins and Billy Wong, former data analysts with Times Higher Education (THE). Its declared mission is “providing insightful data and powerful tools that empower institutions to make informed decisions, and achieve strategic goals.”
It seems that there is a trend towards away from global rankings towards regional rankings. Recently QS introduced a new ranking for Sub-Saharan Africa and now Times Higher Education (THE) has announced that it is preparing Central Eurasian rankings.
Following the discontinuation of the Times Higher Education Sub-Saharan Africa rankings, QS have now announced the publication of their regional rankings.
The Shanghai Ranking consultancy released the latest edition of its Global Ranking of Sports Science Schools and Departments in December. The ranking measures research activity in sports science and does not refer to teaching, graduate careers, or participation in sport events.
TIME, in collaboration with Statista R, has announced the publication of the inaugural edition of a new global ranking of universities, which comprises 500 universities. Academic performance is measured by resources, citations, H-indexes, and winners of Nobel prizes and Fields medals, innovation by patents, MOOCS, web activity, and alumni holding executive positions in international companies, and international presence by students, faculty and international web traffic.
Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) in its limited version shows the top university in each country, is available on fig share. The full version can be obtained from the Cybermetrics Lab of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Universities and governments in the Middle East have become increasingly concerned with international university rankings. An article in University World News, ‘What role do global university rankings play in HE reform?’
A team of student researchers at the University of Oregon and the University of California Santa Cruz have used Artificial Intelligence (AI) to construct a university ranking based on papers presented at top conferences on machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and information retrieval between 2020 and 2025.
The Arab Ranking for Universities is published by the Arab Ranking for Universities Council in conjunction with the League of Arab States, the Association of Arab Universities, and the Arab League Educational, Cultural, and Scientific Organization.
The General Assembly of IREG Observatory meeting in Abu Dhabi, UAE on 9 December 2025 elected Prof. Komiljon Karimov, Rector of Westminster International University in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as a member of IREG Executive Committee, this body in turn elevated him to the position of IREG Vice President.
The IREG General Assembly meeting in Abu Dhabi on 9 December admitted seven new members: An-Najah National University (Palestine), Independent Institute for Accreditation, Rating, and Certification IARC (Kyrgyzstan), Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University IAU (Saudi Arabia), American University of Ras Al Khaimah AURAK (United Arab Emirates), S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical Research University KATRU (Kazakhstan), Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland)
The UI GreenMetric ranking is produced by Universitas Indonesia (UI) and is the first global ranking that assesses universities’ contributions to sustainability. It’s first edition was published in 2010, and it has expanded to include 1,745 institutions.