International Rankings

• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ShanghaiRanking Consultancy; ARWU)
• Asia's Best Universities (Asia Week)
• CHE-Excellence Ranking (CHE)
• Global University City Index
• Newsweek (weekly magazine)
• Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan)
• The Top 100 Full-time Global Programmes (Financial Times)
• World University Rankings (THES & QS)

National Rankings

Argentina

• Consejo Nacional de Evaluation y Acreditation de las Universidades (Consejo Nacional de Evaluation y Acreditation de las Universidades)

Australia

• Good Universities Guides (Hobsons Australia)
• International Standing of Australian Universities (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University)

Brazil

• Provao, annual standardized examination ranking university programmens on a five-grade scale from A to E (National Institute for Educational Studies and Research)

Canada

• Canadian Psychological Association Graduate Guide
• Maclean's university ranking (Maclean's)

Chile

• Consjo Nacional de Acreditation (National Accreditation Agency, grants accreditation for different lengths of time from three to seven years)
• Ranking de las mejores universidades del país/Ranking universidades El Mercurio (EI Mercurio)
• Ranking de universidades Qué Pasa (Que Pasa)

China

• Academic Ranking of World Universities (ShanghaiRanking Consultancy)
• Academic Reputation Ranking in Taiwan (Education Evaluation Section, Center for Learning and Teaching, Tamkang University)
• China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center
• Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan)
• Rankings by the Research Centre for China Science Evaluation, Wuhan University
• Ranking of Universities in Hong Kong (Education 18.com)
• The Chinese Universities Alumni Association Ranking
• The Guangdong Institute of Management Science Ranking (Guangdong Institute of Management Science)
• The NETBIG Ranking (Netbig)

Germany

• CHE University Ranking (Center for Higher Education Development, in partnership with Die Zeit)
• Ranking of Germany's National Innovative Capacity－The Innovative Indicator for Germany (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin)
• The best universities in Germany (Karriere)

India

• India Today Ranking (India Today)
• JAM College Rankings
• National Assessment and Accreditation Council

Italy

• Universidad de la República (La Republic)

Japan

• Asahi Shimbun Newspaper ranking
• Japan University Accreditation Association
• Kawaijuku Rankings
• World Education News and Reviews (WES) Japan

Kazakhstan

• Ranking of Higher Education Institutions in Kazakhstan

Korea

• Korean Council for University Education Ranking

Malaysia

• The Rating of Higher Education Institutions

Netherlands

• The Leiden Ranking (Leiden University)

New Zealand

• PBRF Rankings of New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (Tertiary Education Commission)

Nigeria

• Ranking of Nigerian Universities

Pakistan

• Ranking of Universities, Pakistan (Pakistan Higher Education Commission)

Poland

• Perspektywy

Portugal

• Jornal Publico

Romania

• Academic Ranking and Rating
• Ad-Astra ranking
• Ranking of Universities (The National Council of Research in Higher Education)

Slovakia

• Academic Ranking and Rating (The Independent Slovak Academic Ranking and Rating Agency)

Spain

• Generador de Rankings RI3 para clasificar Instituciones Iberoamericanas de Investigación
• National Graduation Rate Ranking (GRS Research Group)

Sweden

• Ranking of Universities of Colleges (Moderna Tider)

Switzerland

• Champions League (The Swiss Federal Government’s Zentrum für Wissenschafts - und Technologiestudien)
• Switzerland University Ranking

Thailand

• Ministry of Higher Education Ranking

Tunisia

• Comite National d'Evaluation

Ukraine

• Compass: Ranking of Ukrainian Universities
• UNESCO Chair, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, to be published by Zerkalo Nedeli (weekly magazine)

United Kingdom

• Business School Rankings (Financial Times)
• Sunday Times Ranking (The Sunday Times)
• The Good University Guide (The Times, London)
• The Guardian University Guide (The Guardian)
• The Daily Telegraph (daily newspaper)
• World University Rankings (THES & QS)

United States

• America's Best Colleges (US News and World Report)
• NRC Ranking of U.S. Psychology Ph.D. Programs (Social Psychology Network)
• The Washington Monthly College Rankings (Washington Monthly)
• The Top American Research Universities (The Center for Measuring the Performance of American Universities)
• The Top 100 Global Universities (Newsweek Inc.)
• The Princeton Review - 2008 Best 366 Colleges Rankings
• UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings (The UT Dallas' School of Management)

Other Resources:

The Author and Jamil Salmi, Alenoush Saroyan (2007). League Tables as Policy Instruments: Uses and Misuses. Higher Education Management and Policy Volume 19, No.2. OECD 2007, etc.

Last Updated ( 2010-01-25 )