IREG Ranking News
QS have released the 2025 edition of their World University Rankings. Chinese and Indian universities continue to rise while their British and American counterparts continue, with the notable exception of Imperial College London, to decline.
The Round University Ranking was originally based in Russia but have moved to Tbilisi, Georgia. However, it still seems to be perceived as a Russian ranking since it has been subject to Western sanctions, including cutting off survey and bibliometric data from Clarivate.
The Council on Higher Education, located in Pretoria, South Africa, has published a report on university rankings, which Sioux McKenna researched and drafted.
The Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) is now based in the United Arab Emirates. It publishes annual global rankings with seven indicators...
Times Higher Education (THE) have announced the latest results of their Asian University Rankings at a summit in Kuala Lumpur. These results reflect significant methodological changes to the world rankings and further adjustments to the regional rankings.
In an article in University World News “THE’ rankings: What happens to universities that leave” Richard Holmes analyses what happens (ranking and reputation wise) to universities that decided to no longer provide their data to the THE’ WUR.
Caroline Wagner’s article, originally published in The Conversation and republished in University World News, brings to light a shift in data collection and analysis.
Shanghai Ranking has announced the latest edition of the Best Chinese Universities Ranking.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) have announced the results of their World University Rankings by Subject 2024. These provide rankings of five broad and fifty-five narrow subjects.
The IREG Observatory General Assembly by electronic vote admitted the following new members: Elsevier Ltd, (London, UK) A global publisher of scientific journals, leader in information and analytics.
Waldemar Siwinski, president of IREG recently visited Bucharest where he met with Prof. Remus Procopie, rector of the SNSPA University and high-ranking representatives of Romania’s higher education authorities.
An article by Irfan Ayhan of Sabanci University, Istambul, Turkye, ‘Research Trends in University Rankings: A Scoping Review of the Top 100 Most Cited Articles in Academic Journals from 2017 to 2021’, has been published in the European Review.
The University of Zurich has announced that it will no longer submit data to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings and their various spin-offs.
The SCImago Institutions Rankings are published by a company that is a spin-off from the SCImago Research Group, an organization supported by the Spanish National Research Council, the University of Granada, the Charles III University of Madrid, and other institutions.
The Islamic World Science and Technology Monitoring and Citation Institute (ISC) was established in Azerbaijan in 2008 and is now based in Iran. It has published the Islamic World University Rankings since 2014 and world rankings since 2018.