Friday, March 26, 2010

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News about ranking There has been a lot of ranking-related activity over the last few days. Phil Baty of Times Higher Education and the QS...
Saturday, March 20, 2010

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FAQs at QS QS have answered some questions over at QS TOPUNIVERSITIES . Here are some of the questions and ATFAQS (Answers to ...) or extr...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

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Job Advertisement QS are recruiting a Research Assistant for their London office, presumably to work on the data collection for the 2010 r...
Friday, March 12, 2010

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Article on Rankings There is a detailed and thorough review of recent developments by David Jobbins in University World News: First shots fi...

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Ranking News There has been a lot news from the rankosphere over the last week. On the 8th of March QS World University Rankings announced t...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Comparing Two Surveys Over the last few years university rankings have acquired a large audience. Each year since 2003 , when the first Sha...
Saturday, March 06, 2010

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Hyper-bureaucracy Times Higher has a leader by Ann Mroz on the rising tide of academic bureaucracy, to which, we might add, rankings, rati...
Thursday, March 04, 2010

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Comment from Tines Higher Phil Baty in today's Times Higher Education explains why the rankings need an overhaul despite their growing ...
Wednesday, March 03, 2010

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Article on Rankings in Nature A substantial article on developments in international university rankings by Declan Butler has appeared here...
Saturday, February 27, 2010

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How Much Instability? Phil Baty in Times Higher Education writes about fluctuations in the old THE-QS rankings "Magazines that compile...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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RateMyProfessors and Amy Bishop Richard Vedder of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity produces an interesting US ranking ...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

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A Survey from Thomson Reuters A survey was conducted recently for Thomson Reuters to provide input for the forthcoming Times Higher Educatio...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

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Starting Again This , in an article by Phil Baty of THE in The Australian , sounds promising. "So we've started again. For 2010, Th...

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Chinese University Rankings Click here for a survey by Nick Clark in the World Education News and Reviews

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Quality Assurance and Ranking of Higher Education in Asia-Pacific and Taiwan Click here for another presentation from the CHEA Internationa...

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Presentation by Robert Morse Click here for a comprehensive and informative presentation by Robert Morse of US News at the CHEA Internatio...

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Tales of Jiggery-Pokery Phil Baty argues in yesterday's Times Higher Education that, despite the "jiggery-pokery" employed by...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

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How Good is LSE at Economics? The answer is very good but there seem to be a few US universities that are better. Tilburg University has jus...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

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Who's Interested in Ranking? The country share of vistors to this blog is as follows. Noticeably absent are China and Russia unless they...
Saturday, February 13, 2010

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Comparing Ranking Sites I recently came across a site called StrategicFIRST that ranks websites according to traffic and indicates an estim...

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The War of the THE-QS Succession There is a comment by Nunzio Quacquarelli on the QS topuniversities rankings blog. Here is an extract: ...
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Thursday, February 11, 2010

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New Webometrics Ranking The new Webometrics ranking is out. Some interesting points The top 20 are all in the USA. The best non-US universi...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

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More Rising Stars The rise of China to scientific superpower status has been well documented. See here for a report by Jonathon Adams, Chr...
Friday, February 05, 2010

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Who is Biased? There has been a lot of discussion about university rankings recently. In Times Higher Education , Phil Baty refers to a com...
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Tuesday, February 02, 2010

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Article in the Chronicle The Chronicle of Higher Education has a substantial article on world rankings by Aisha Labi. She describes a numb...