Global University Ranking

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The Global University Ranking is a new ranking of 500 world universities carried out under an international global project of an Independent Rating Agency - RatER (Rating of Educational Resources) supported by the academic society of Russia.^[1]

It combines main global rankings (Academic Ranking of World Universities, HEEACT, THE - QS World University Rankings, and Webometrics) and utilizes a pool of "experts" formed by project officials and managers to determine the rating scales for every indicator of performance of the universities in seven areas (academic performance, research performance, faculty expertise, resource availability, socially significant activities of graduates, international activities of the university, and international opinion of foreign universities).

The ranking is aimed at overcoming the barriers which have historically appeared between domestic educational system and the world educational space, first of all, of information barriers; definition of the place of the Russian higher education institutions and the universities of the CIS countries and Baltic in the global educational space; stimulation of the academic community for putting their efforts on development of universities and educational systems.^[2]

The first ranking was published in the beginning of 2009 and compared data from 15000 universities worldwide^[3].

Commentary

From 15000 universities more than 500 higher educational institutions from 70 various countries of the world, including almost 100 universities of Russia, the CIS countries and Baltic are chosen for estimation.^[4] The necessary information is received both from the questionnaires and from public sources of information, and data from the questionnaires filled in by universities:

• Responses to questionnaires sent to the universities chosen for estimation^[5]
• Official sites of universities
• Annual reports of universities
• National agencies specializing in gathering and processing educational statistics
• Various ratings which may also include estimated universities
• Records of the scientometric data base Scopus
• Google search system data

The estimation is made in the following six blocks of activity:

1. Educational activity (Block1). It includes indicators of number of bachelors, specialists, masters, post-graduate students/doctoral candidates of a university; estimations of number of educational programs realized by the university (bachelor’s program, specialist’s program, master’s degree program, postgraduate studies/doctoral studies); size of the resulted number of a contingent trained by one teacher.

2. Research activity (Block2). It includes general number of patents and certificates of discovery registered by authors of a university during the period from 2001 to 2007; an indicator of productivity of the computer centre (supercomputer) of a university; Hirschman index of a university.

3. Professional competence of the faculty (Block3). It includes number of publications of authors of a university (articles, monographs, scientific and methodical books), published during the period from 2001 to 2007; number of quotations of the authors of a university during the period from 2001 to 2007; estimation of number of awards of the world level received by employees of a university during the period from 2001 to 2007 (awards of the world level - the Nobel Prize, Fields medal, the Descartes prize, the Abel prize, Lomonosov medal of the Russian Academy of Sciences).

4. Financial maintenance (Block4). It includes the volume of consolidated budget of a university for 2007 (million US dollars) in ratio to the aggregate number of students.

5. International activity (Block5). It includes estimation of membership of a university in the international academic communities; number of foreign students from an aggregate number of student.

6. Internet audience (Block6). It includes the volume of web-products created by a university during the period from 2001 to 2007; popularity of the university in queries of the search system Google in 2008; PageRank value of the main page of the university’s site for the autumn of 2008.

University’s evaluation summary is determined as follows: 0,2*Block1 + 0,2* Block2 + 0,2* Block3 + 0,15* Block4 + 0,1* Block5 + 0,15* Block6.

Weights of block estimations are determined in the course of procedures of expert estimations. Estimations are standardized according to the maximum value and are brought to 100 points.

Rankings

2009

The table below contains the 2009 rankings for all universities which ranked at least 100 in one of the years.^[6] The ranking is omitted for years in which the school did not land within the top 100. Note, the full ranking contains over 500 universities^{[7][8][9][10]}. If a university is not listed in this table, it fell below 100^[11].

University	2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology	1
California Institute of Technology	2
Tokyo University	3
Columbia University	4
Lomonosov Moscow State University	5
Harvard University	6
Stanford University	7
University of Cambridge	8
Johns Hopkins University	9
University of Chicago	10
Kyoto University	11
Princeton University	12
University College London	13
University of Oxford	14
University of California, Los Angeles	15
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	16
University of Edinburgh	17
University of California, Berkeley	18-19
University of Pennsylvania	18-19
University of California, San Diego	20
Carnegie Mellon University	21
New York University	22
University of Washington	23
Duke University	24
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	25
University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	26
Cornell University	27
University of Maryland, College Park	28
University of Southern California	29
McGill University	30
Tokyo Institute of Technology	31
Vanderbilt University	32
University of Utah	33
University of Rochester	34
Technical University of Munich	35
Michigan State University	36-39
University of Paris 11 (Paris-Sud 11 University)	36-39
Emory University	36-39
King's College London	36-39
University of Sheffield	40
University of Tsukuba	41
University of Pittsburgh	42
University of York	43
Case Western Reserve University	44
École Polytechnique	45
Osaka University	46
University of California, Santa Barbara	47
University of Copenhagen	48
Tohoku University	49
Australian National University	50
Humboldt University of Berlin	51
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	52-54
University of Manchester	52-54
University of Texas at Austin	52-54
Bauman Moscow State Technical University	55
Georgia Institute of Technology	56
Arizona State University	57-58
Ohio State University	57-58
University of Groningen	59
University of Nottingham	60
Kyushu University	61
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	62
Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg	63
University of Toronto	64
University of California, Irvine	65
Boston University	66
Curtin University of Technology	67
University of Freiburg	68
University of Florida	69
University of Wisconsin–Madison	70-71
Durham University	70-71
ETH Zurich	72-73
University of Montreal	72-73
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute	74-77
Monash University	74-77
Pennsylvania State University	74-77
State University of New York at Stony Brook	74-77
Uppsala University	78
Purdue University	79
University of Arizona	80
University of Melbourne	81-83
University of Geneva	81-83
Seoul National University	81-83
Saint-Petersburg State University	84
University of Alberta	85-87
University of Birmingham	85-87
University of Queensland	85-87
National University of Singapore	88
RWTH Aachen University	89
Indiana University - Bloomington	90-91
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology	90-91
Nagoya University	92
National Taiwan University	93
University of California, Davis	94
University of Ghent	95
Drexel University	96-98
University of Basel	96-98
North Carolina State University	96-98
University of Glasgow	99
Maastricht University	100

See also

• College and university rankings
• Academic Ranking of World Universities
• HEEACT - Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities
• THE - QS World University Rankings
• Webometrics Ranking of World Universities

External links

• Ranking Methodology

References