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AppliedEdu ASEAN Rankings: Malaysia and Singapore Stay in the Lead

AppliedEdu is a Singapore based consulting company that publishes ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and All-Asia university rankings.

THE World University Rankings: Stability at the Top and Churning Further Down

The latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings have been published. The top of the overall table is held, by a very narrow margin, by the University of Oxford, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton University, Stanford University, and the University of Cambridge.

Shanghai Subject Rankings: Moving Towards a Bipolar World

The latest edition of the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects, often known as the Shanghai Subject Rankings, has been released. The methodology is rather different from the Academic Ranking of World Universities, comprising nine indicators in five categories.

Nigeria Expands Scope of Academic Rankings

Nigeria has been passionately concerned with university rankings for the last two decades. The Ranking Web of Universities (Webometrics) and the Times Higher Education (THE) and QS rankings are avidly followed.

The World’s Top Entrepreneurial Universities

PitchBook is a financial research platform specializing in private venture capital. It publishes rankings based on the number of university graduates who have raised venture capital.

Latest Taiwan Rankings

The National Taiwan University rankings, formerly known as the Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, have been published exclusively by the National Taiwan University since 2012. They are based on publicly available data for articles and citations.

Shanghai Rankings: Stability and Movement

The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), usually called the Shanghai Rankings, is the oldest global university ranking. It is often counted among the three or four most well-known rankings and has a transparent and stable methodology.

Webometrics Ranking: Beware of Fakes

The latest Ranking of World Universities (Webometrics) which is published twice a year has been announced. The genuine summary rankings are available at figshare, and the detailed tables are available on application to the Cybermetrics Lab IPP-CSIC, Madrid.

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