2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities: Top 20 and UK placings

2014 ARWU University World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings It feels like a strange time to publish a world ranking but ideal holiday reading for many. Anyway, as in previous years there is not a huge amount to get excited about as this is a league table where little changes. The full rankings have been published and …

Students behaving badly

Crimes and misdemeanours at university I was greatly taken by this list of fineable offences for 18th-century students at Harvard: Offense #19, "Cutting off the lead," seems to refer to the lead on the college building's roof. Lead was once used for roofing material (especially for more expensively-constructed buildings), and such buildings suffered from the …

2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities: Top 20 and UK placings

2013 ARWU University World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings A level results day is an interesting time to publish a world ranking but who are we to criticise. Anyway, don't get too excited as it is unlikely the bookies will be losing their shirts on this one. Here is the top 20 in full. …

Not Guilty, Your Honour: students and cheating

Honour codes and cheating Two fascinating stories recently about students cheating and responses to it. All universities face the issue of how to educate students on the importance of honesty and integrity in academic study and avoiding plagiarism and other forms of cheating. Many US institutions have what is called an Honour Code to which …

2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings

2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings Keep calm. Top 20 follows: 1 Harvard University 2 Stanford University 3 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 4 University of California, Berkeley 5 University of Cambridge 6 California Institute of Technology 7 Princeton University 8 Columbia University 9 University of Chicago 10 University of …

True Crime: the US campus edition

Another True Crime on Campus USA It's a bit like those US versions of top rated UK reality TV shows. Except it obviously isn't. And they did it first. However, as a cursory examination of some of the highlights from this edition (featured in The Chronicle of Higher Education) will show, the UK version is …

QS World University Rankings 2011 – UK Results

QS World University Rankings 2011 - Results for UK universities The UK presence in the QS top 100 for 2011 is largely unchanged although there is some jockeying for position in the top 10 where Cambridge is ranked first for a second consecutive year ahead of Harvard, MIT and Yale and Oxford moves up to …

British students flocking to the US Ivy League. Or not?

An untrained brain drain? In a recent post I commented on the press reports on the modest flow of English students to universities in continental Europe and the reverse flow of other EU students to the UK. The media seems extremely keen to report any international movement by students from the UK as evidence of …

Measuring productivity: Ranking papers

Measuring Productivity Another ranking, this time it's the 2010 Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities, brought to you by the Higher Education and Evaluation Council of Taiwan. So, essentially it's just about the research as the criteria show: The top 10: 1 Harvard 2 Stanford 3 Johns Hopkins 4 University of Washington 5 …

Another World Ranking: High Impact Universities

High Impact Universities: "it's all about research impact" Following the rash of recent world league table publications here is one that is based primarily on research. The rankings measure universities' Research Performance Index or RPI. The table has been developed at the University of Western Australia and can be found here. The Top 20 is: …

New 2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings

2010 Times Higher Education World University Rankings The new THE world rankings are out and available here. New method, new rankings and some pretty big changes in the top 200. However, to look at the top 20 you wouldn't think there was an awful lot going on here (unless perhaps you were Cambridge). And Harvard …

QS World University Rankings 2010: UK results

QS World University Rankings 2010: UK results - good, bad or indifferent? Following up the earlier post on the QS world top 20 it is interesting to note that, depending on your perspective, a goodly/pitiful number of UK universities appear in the QS top 100 as follows (last year in brackets): 1 Cambridge (2) 4 …

QS World University Rankings Results 2010

QS World University Rankings Results 2010 The QS rankings have been published and join a crowded marketplace of world university league tables. Much excitement no doubt about Cambridge and Harvard swapping places but not clear what the real reasons for this might be. Remainder of top 20 is roughly the same: Rank 2010 (2009 in …

Most Cited Institutions: 1999-2009

A league table of the most cited institutions 1999-2009 has been published by ScienceWatch.com The list is dominated by US universities with 14 entries and only three UK entries and one each from Germany, Canada and Japan. Harvard is, inevitably, top: These institutions all produce a high volume of papers resulting in extremely high citation …

Latest 2009 world university league table rankings from THE

Latest 2009 world rankings from THE and QS The University world rankings have been published in THE. The top 25 is as follows: 2009 1 Harvard University (1 in 2008) 2 University of Cambridge (3) 3 Yale University (2) 4 University College London (7) 5= Imperial College London (6) 5= University of Oxford (4) 7 …