University Ranking
Shanghai (Academic Ranking of World Universities)
Published yearly by Institute of Higher Education vid Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Link
Criteria:
| Number of alumni receiving Nobel or Fields since 1901 | 10% |
| Number of staff receiving Nobel or Fields since 1911 | 20% |
| Number of staff on ISI's list of Highly Cited Scientists | 20% |
| Number of articles in the past 5 years in Nature or Science | 20% |
| Number of articles in the past year in ISI/WoS | 20% |
| The above normalized for total staff numbers
| 10% |
Financial Times Ranking
Business school rankings . Link
The Financial Times has been publishing Business School rankings since 1999. The objectives are "to produce a listing of business schools that are producing the global managers for the 21st century". They are publishing five different rankings spread out over the whole year:
- Global MBA-Ranking (January)
- Executive Education Ranking (May)
- European Master's in Management Programme Ranking (September)
- Executive MBA Ranking (October)
- European Business School Ranking (December)
Except for its latest ranking, the Master's in Management Programme, which ranks pre-experience (Bologna Master) programmes, the programmes covered are continuous and executive education programmes . There are some 15-20 criteria used in the different rankings, addressing the overarching goal of customer satisfaction. The ranking criteria vary, but they are mostly based on four general aspects:
- Career progress of alumni
- International focus of the programmme
- Research strength of the faculty
- Gender diversity with regard to participants, faculty and board
FT rankings are highly selective. Only business schools with a strong international orientation and a high reputation are eligible. The rankings are mostly global in its scope, some of them are european. The published rankings are dominated by English-speaking business schools, which is also due to some cultural biases embedded in the ranking methodology. This can be seen in the overriding importance given to salary-related criteria (40% of the weight) and the required publication in a selected group of 40 English language journals (10%).
QS World University Rankings
By QS Ltd. During 2004-2009 in cooperation with THES. Link
Criteria:
| Expert opinions by international researchers | 40% |
| Expert opinions by recruiters at international companies | 10% |
| Citations in Scopus / employee | 20% |
| Percentage of foreign teachers
| 5% |
| Percentage of foreign students | 5% |
| Employess / student
| 20% |
THE World University Rankings
Times Higher Education Supplement
Since 2010 in cooperation with Thomson Reuter. Link
Based on 13 indicators in 5 groups:
| Education | Surveys (15%), doctoral students/teacher, teachers/student, funds/teacher, quota of doctoral students/other students
| 30% |
| Research | Surveys (19.5%), research funds/teacher, publications/teacher, percentage of research funds given out through competition | 30% |
| Citations | Field normalized citations
| 32.5% |
| International mix
| Percentage of foreign teachers (3%), Percentage of foreign students (2%) | 5% |
| Industry cooperation
| Industry funding/teacher | 2.5% |
The Leiden Ranking
Center for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. Ranking based on bibliometric indicators. Link
- "The Leiden Ranking 2010 presents European rankings based on the largest 100 and on the largest 250 European universities, and World rankings based on the largest 100, the largest 250, and the largest 500 universities."
Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
Released twice yearly by Cybermetrics Lab, a group at Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC).
Ranks universities according to their web presence.
Link
Criteria:
| Number of hits by four search engines
| 20% |
| Number of external links pointing to the university | 50% |
| Number of .pdf, .ps, .doc and .pps hits by four search engines
| 15% |
| Number of publications found by Google Scholar | 15% |
Professional Ranking of World Universities
By École des Mines de Paris. Link
Based on the number of alumni executives at international companies on the Forbes 500.
CHE Excellence Ranking (European)
By the Centre for Higher Education Development GmbH, Gütersloh, Germany. Link
Compares the largest European universities in seven categories: biology, chemistry, math, physics, economics, government, and psychology. Read more about the criteria.
Comparison Research at Nordic Universities using Bibliometric Indicators
By NORIA network, NordForsk. Link
"A new Nordic report shows that bibliometric indicators can provide greater insight than rankings that are based on a somewhat superficial use of statistics."