Some rankings evaluate institutions within a single country, while others assess institutions worldwide.
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31 Facts About University rankings
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Some University rankings consider measures of wealth, excellence in research, selective admissions, and alumni success.
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UNESCO has questioned whether University rankings "do more harm than good", while acknowledging that "Rightly or wrongly, they are perceived as a measure of quality and so create intense competition between universities all over the world".
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Many University rankings are considered to contain biases towards the natural sciences and, due to the bibliometric sources used, towards publication in English-language journals.
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Some University rankings, including ARWU, fail to make any correction for the sizes of institutions, so a large institution is ranked considerably higher than a small institution with the same quality of research.
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QS World University Rankings are a ranking of the world's top universities produced by Quacquarelli Symonds published annually since 2004.
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Subject rankings are intended to address the most frequent criticism of all world university ranking systems, that they contain too little material about specific subjects.
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The QS University rankings have been criticized for their commercial purpose and can be manipulated by researchers from different universities agreeing to support each other in the surveys.
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THE published its first University rankings using its new methodology on 16 September 2010, a month earlier than previous years.
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The University rankings are based on a survey of 10,323 academics from 133 countries, who are asked to talk the top universities in their field for teaching and for research.
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Center for World University Rankings is based in the United Arab Emirates and publishes global university rankings measuring the quality of education and training for students as well as the prestige of the faculty members and the quality of their research.
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Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University rankings maintains a European and worldwide ranking of the top 500 universities according including the number and impact of Web of Science-indexed publications per year.
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The University rankings compare research institutions by taking into account differences in language, discipline and institutional size.
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Round University Ranking, or abbreviated RUR Rankings is a world university ranking, assessing effectiveness of 750 leading universities in the world based on 20 indicators distributed among 4 key dimension areas: teaching, research, international diversity, financial sustainability.
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University rankings Ranking by Academic Performance, abbreviated as URAP, was developed in the Informatics Institute of Middle East Technical University rankings.
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For global University rankings, URAP employs indicators of research performance including the number of articles, citation, total documents, article impact total, citation impact total, and international collaboration.
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Annual US News Best Global Universities University rankings were produced to provide insight into how universities compare globally.
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Best Global Universities University rankings provide insight into how US universities – which US News has been ranking separately for more than 30 years – stand globally.
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Global University rankings Ranking measures over 400 universities using the RatER, an autonomous, non-commercial, Russian rating agency supported by Russia's academic society.
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Regional and national University rankings are carried out in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America and Oceania.
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Korean Council for University rankings Education, established in 2009, evaluates universities in South Korea.
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Bulgarian University rankings Ranking System, maintained by the Bulgarian Ministry of Education, compares academic programs in accredited domestic higher education institutions.
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Since 1998, the Centre for Higher Education has published the CHE University rankings Ranking, a comprehensive ranking of German and Austrian universities.
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RatER publishes annual rankings based on representation of university graduates in governmental, education and business elite.
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URAP Research Laboratory of the Middle East Technical University rankings assesses academic output of Turkish universities, as well as about 300 institutes of higher education worldwide.
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The University rankings are split into three categories: schools that focus on undergraduate studies with few to no graduate programs, schools that have both extensive undergraduate studies and an extensive selection of graduate programs and schools that have a professional medical program and a selection of graduate programs.
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QS Quacquarelli Symonds, in addition to their QS World University Rankings, publish an annual ranking of the top 300 universities in Latin America.
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Critics argue that University rankings can divert universities' attention away from teaching and social responsibility towards the type of scientific research valued by indicators used for ranking exercises.
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The fact that University rankings are said to favour the advantage enjoyed by the 200 best-ranked institutions has important implications for equity.
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