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The CWTS Leiden Ranking is published by the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University, Netherlands. It provides tables of publications by universities including data on collaboration, open access, and gender equity. All metrics are based on objective and publicly accessible data. The latest edition was released on October 29th, 2025.
QS Quacquarelli Symonds have just published the latest edition of their Arab Region University Rankings. King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, remains at the top, followed by Qatar University.
The latest edition of the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings has just been announced. There are few dramatic changes this year. Oxford remains in first place, as it has for the last decade, while the rise of leading Mainland Chinese universities appears to have levelled off.
Come to IREG 2025 Conference, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 10-11 December 2025. Listen to university leaders and top international experts on university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Isidro F. Aguillo (Spain) discuss how rankings can contribute to university excellence and the sustainability goals.
The National Institutional Ranking Framework was established by the Indian government in 2015, partly in response to dissatisfaction with the major global rankings.
PitchBook is a financial data and research platform, based in Seattle, London, and Singapore, with offices in New York and San Francisco. It is now owned by Morningstar Inc and publishes an annual list of universities whose alumni have raised venture capital.
IDP Education Limited is an Australian-based international company that specializes in student placement, language testing, and advisory services. Its web pages frequently refer to the global rankings published by Shanghai Ranking, QS, Times Higher Education (THE), and US News, in addition to the Complete University Guide and the Guardian University Guide. They have recently published a report on the use of rankings by international students.
Authors and analysts of global and regional university rankings such as Ben Sowter (UK), Alex Usher (Canada), M'hamed El Aisati (Netherlands), Ghassan Aouad (UAE), Waldemar Siwinski (Poland), Minchun Zh (China), Isidro F. Aguillo (Sain), top HE eperts and university leaders will discuss in Abu Dhabi rankings contribution to university excellence and sustainability.
The latest edition of University Ranking by Academic Performance (URAP) shows an increasingly bipolar research world with China dominating engineering and the hard sciences while the USA and the UK still lead in the humanities and the social sciences.
The AD Scientific Index is a “real-time academic performance analysis platform” that publishes rankings based on Google Scholar profiles, which are more inclusive than Scopus or Web of Science.
The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), usually known as the Shanghai Rankings, are the oldest global university rankings. They are included among the three or four most well-known rankings and have a straightforward and stable methodology.
A recent article in Nature noted that there has been a massive increase in the number of retractions of papers in the life sciences.
The latest edition of the Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) has been published. The web page has been discontinued, and the overall ranking can be obtained from the link below. Data on the metrics will be included later in a file available for a modest fee.
“Since its launch in 2019, the THE Impact Ranking has provided a valuable framework for evaluating universities based on their contributions to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG”s)” writes the German Rectors’ Conference (HRK) in a letter addressed to Phil Baty, THE’s Chief Global Affairs Officer.
The Tongji University STEM (Science Technology Engineering Mathematics) Education Think Tank in Shanghai has published a Global STEM Development Index, a “comprehensive evaluation tool for national and regional science, technology, engineering and mathematics education development.”