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QS World University Rankings 2024: Top global universities

Marketing The 20th edition of the QS World University Rankings features 1,500 institutions across 104 locations and is the only ranking of its kind to emphasise employability and sustainability. This year, we’ve implemented our largest-ever methodological enhancement, introducing three new metrics: Sustainability, Employment Outcomes and International Research Network.  The results draw on the analysis of 17.5m academic papers and the expert […]

U.S. News’ 2024 college ranking boosts public universities

Marketing U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 college rankings features many of the usual prestigious institutions at the top of the list, but also vaults some schools much higher after the publisher revised its grading system to reward different criteria. U.S News’ ranking algorithm now based more than 50% of an institution’s score on what it describes as “success in […]

The ranking of the best universities in the world U.S. News

Marketing Us news U.S. News – the authoritative compiler of the rankings of universities in the world. The purpose of the international ranking Best Global Universities – to give entrants in the bachelor and master degree from foreign universities, information about their research and academic reputation. In the ranking of 2016 entered 1000 institutions from 65 countries. The website presents the […]

Insights from the 2024 Times Higher Education World University Rankings

Marketing The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2024 include 1,904 universities across 108 countries and regions. The table is based on our new WUR 3.0 methodology, which includes 18 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research environment, research quality, industry, and international outlook. This year’s ranking analysed more than 134 million citations across 16.5 million […]

The institutionalization of rankings in higher education: continuities, interdependencies, engagement

Marketing In this article, we introduce the special issue of Higher Education that centers on the question of the institutionalization of rankings in higher education. The article has three parts. In the first part, we argue that the grand narratives such as globalization and neoliberalism are unsatisfactory as standalone explanations of why and how college and university rankings become institutionalized. As a […]