University Ranking Watch

Discussion and analysis of international university rankings and topics related to the quality of higher education. Anyone wishing to contact Richard Holmes without worrying about ending up in comments can go to rjholmes2000@yahoo.com

Saturday, September 20, 2025

Latest Substack Posts

 

(1) The Decline of Oxford and Cambridge in the Good University Guide

The 2024 AI rankings - by Richard Holmes

Science moves East - by Richard Holmes

Is this an AI generated ranking? - by Richard Holmes

A Ranking of Women's Universities - by Richard Holmes

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Wednesday, July 09, 2025

Substack Post: Bad Research Never Dies

 

Bad Research Never Dies

Nor does it just fade away



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Thursday, July 03, 2025

Substack Posts

 

The Unsustainability of Sustainability Rankings

Using AI in Rankings

Have we reached peak ranking?

Is Internationalisation Essential for Academic Excellence?

College Ranking Systems Assessment


What's the Matter With Harvard?


Will Harvard be Devastated?


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Saturday, June 14, 2025

Substack Posts

 


Faculty Student Ratio: Who are you Going to Believe?


Are Top US Universities Really so Bad at Research?


Citations and Ranking


What Happened in the 2024-2025 QS World Rankings?

Thinking the unthinkable


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Presentations

  • Global Rankings: Past, Present, Future. Bucharest, November 2024
  • Developments in National and Regional Rankings. Warsaw June 2022
  • COVID-19 and the Rankings. Beijing October 2020 online
  • Rankings, Universities and the Media. Bologna May 2019
  • International University Rankings and Southeast Asia. Kuala Lumpur March 2019
  • International Rankings and the Assessment of Teaching: A Regional Perspective. Doha March 2017
  • Global Rankings: Changing Methodologies: Yekaterinburg February 2016
  • QS and THE subject rankings compared. Moscow April 2015

BOOK CHAPTER

  • Research Handbook on University Rankings. Edited by Hazelkorn and Mihut

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  • Watching the Rankings: Selected Writings on International University Rankings and Related Topics by Richard Holmes E BOOK
  • Watching the Rankings: Selected Writings on International University Rankings and Related Topics by Richard Holmes. PRINT EDITION

ARTICLES

  • Crisis, conflict and global rankings
  • Developing a Method for Evaluating Global University Rankings (Gadd, Holmes, Shearer)
  • Polish Universities in International Rankings
  • Rethinking the Rankings (Gadd and Holmes)
  • Searching for the Gold Standard: The Times Higher Education World University Rankings, 2010-2014
  • The THE-QS World University Rankings, 2004 – 2009
  • The THES University Rankings: Are they really world-class?

Higher Education

  • Education Week
  • Guardian Higher Education Network
  • Higher Education Strategy Associates
  • Illuminate Consulting Group
  • Inside Higher Ed
  • Minding the Campus
  • New York Times: International Education
  • OECD: Education
  • ROARS: Return on Academic Research
  • Study International
  • The Australian: Higher Education
  • The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Times Higher Education
  • University World News
  • Wonkhe

University rankings: Discussion and analysis

  • 4 International Colleges and Universities
  • ACCESS
  • Center for World University Rankings
  • China Education Center
  • Complete University Guide
  • CWTS Leiden Ranking
  • Guardian University Guide (UK)
  • Independent Kazakhstan Quality Assurance Agency for Education
  • India's Best Universities
  • IREG: Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence
  • Noodle
  • QS
  • Ranking Web of World Universities (Webometrics)
  • Rankings of Australian Universities
  • SETARA '09 (Malaysia)
  • Times Higher Education
  • World Ranking Guide

Blogs

  • A University Blog
  • Alejandro Pisanty
  • Beerkens' Blog
  • Changing Higher Education
  • GlobalHigherEd
  • International Education Blogs
  • Irishscience
  • Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings
  • Ninth Level Ireland
  • QS Intelligence Unit Blog
  • Registrarism
  • Research Blogs
  • WoW! Wowter on the Web
  • duncan3ross
  • higheredstrategy
  • nanopolitan

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