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 … Continue reading 2014 Academic Ranking of World Universities: Top 20 and UK placings
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2015 Complete University Guide League Table
It's spring and it's time for the first league table of the season. Once again it's the Complete University Guide which is first to publish this year. The top 25 is as follows: 1 (1) Cambridge 2 (2) Oxford 3 (3) London School of Economics 4 (6) St Andrews 5 (5) Durham 6 (4) Imperial … Continue reading 2015 Complete University Guide League Table
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 … Continue reading Students behaving badly
Daft University Traditions
Some students (and universities) do the silliest things... Lots of universities have bizarre traditions which their students sustain year after year or in some cases disappear into oblivion. My eye was recently caught by a collection of "Princetonia" including this rather odd event called Poler's Recess: One of the more peculiar Princeton traditions was an … Continue reading Daft University Traditions
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. … Continue reading 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities: Top 20 and UK placings
2014 Complete University Guide League Table
It's spring and it's time for the first league table of the season. The Complete University Guide and league table for 2014 is now out. The details can be found on the Guide website together with lots of other analysis (including by subject, region and mission group) and information on careers, fees etc. The main … Continue reading 2014 Complete University Guide League Table
The Imperfect University: Graduation – a bit London 2012?
Graduations: A bit like the Olympics but then some Graduation is one of the most significant events in the university calendar. It is a slightly bizarre and rather ritualistic event. Everyone (well, nearly everyone) dresses up, in gowns and/or posh frocks or newly acquired suits. I have attended two of my own and over 150 … Continue reading The Imperfect University: Graduation – a bit London 2012?
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 … Continue reading 2012 Shanghai Jiao Tong World Rankings: Top 20 and UK placings
A new world ranking of universities
What we've all been waiting for... Yes, it's another new world ranking. This time from the previously unheard of Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) from Saudi Arabia. The website offers little information about the organisation but we do know that the US has the lion's share of the top 100 places: The distribution of … Continue reading A new world ranking of universities
QS World subject ranking – UK universities
New QS world rankings by subject The Guardian has a summary of UK universities' performance in the latest QS subject rankings and it looks like Oxford comes out top Institution name Highest rank Subject University of Oxford 1 Geography History Philosophy University of Cambridge 1 English Language and Literature London Business School 3 Accountancy and … Continue reading QS World subject ranking – UK universities
Student Olympians
A different kind of league table Universities Week this year had a distinct Olympics focus: 30 April 2012: To mark the start of Universities Week 2012 (30 April – 7 May), a new report launched today reveals the statistics behind Team GB for the last twenty years. Detailed analysis of UK Olympic athletes shows that … Continue reading Student Olympians
2013 Complete University Guide League Table
Yes, it's the first league table of the season The Complete University Guide and league table is now out. The details can be found on the Guide websitetogether with lots of other analysis (including by subject, region and mission group) and information on careers, fees etc. The main table uses nine indicators: Student Satisfaction, Research … Continue reading 2013 Complete University Guide League Table
A Key University Ranking
It's the University Challenge top 10 University Ranking Watch has published a distinctive table: the universities which have won the most University Challenge series. Leaving aside the detail that Oxford and Cambridge enjoy the special privilege of multiple entries, via the Colleges, it's an interesting list: 1. Oxford 39 points 2. Cambridge 21 3. Manchester … Continue reading A Key University Ranking
Student regulations. In Oxford and Uzbekistan
Guess which is from the 16th Century Students have always behaved badly. Not all of them and not all of the time but universities have often felt the need to seek to constrain the worst excesses. In 1584 at Oxford University, statutes were approved to prevent disorder among the student body. These regulations also contain … Continue reading Student regulations. In Oxford and Uzbekistan
Not one of the most cited league tables
But a diverting ranking nevertheless... I first picked up on this one over four years ago in a rather dismissive post. It's an exciting league table which aims to reflect the contributions of universities to educating the world's top chief executives. Produced by the Ecole des Mines de Paris, or MINES ParisTech as they seem … Continue reading Not one of the most cited league tables