Many universities and professional organizations have compiled university ranking lists to evaluate universities using criteria other than publication output and citation impact. This page provides you the information of some commonly known and freely available ranking lists.
Click on the links below to know more about these ranking lists:
http://www.shanghairanking.com/
ARWU is an influential ranking list of world universities compiled by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU). Each year, the top 1000 universities in the world are ranked based on a set of criteria:
| Criteria | Indicator | Weight |
| Quality of Education | Alumni of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals | 10% |
| Quality of Faculty |
Staff of an institution winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals Highly cited researchers in 21 broad subject categories |
20% 20% |
| Research Output |
Papers published in Nature and Science (not for institutions specialized in humanities and social sciences) Papers indexed in Science Citation Index-expanded and Social Science Citation Index |
20% 20% |
| Per Capita Performance | Per capita academic performance of an institution | 10% |
| Total | - | 100% |
From ARWU website: http://www.shanghairanking.com/methodology/arwu/2022
Below is an example of the ARWU ranking lists.
You can also make use of ARWU's "Universities" page to search for a particular university and view its ranking.
www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/
This is a ranking list compiled by UK Times Higher Education (THE). In 2010, THE split from its previous partner Quacquarelli Symonds and started to collaborate with Thomson Reuters to create a separate ranking list based on a new set of assessing criteria:
| Criteria | Weight |
| Teaching - the learning environment | 30% |
| Research - volume, income and reputation | 30% |
| Citations - research influence | 30% |
| Industry income - innovation | 2.5% |
| International outlook - staff, students and research | 7.5% |
World University Ranking 2023:
THE also provides rankings of universities or institutions that are under 50 years old: Young University Rankings.
http://www.topuniversities.com/
This is a respected university ranking list published by Quacquarelli Symonds. The list was originally compiled in collaboration with Times Higher Education until 2010, when THE started to partner Thomson Reuters to create another list of ranking (see above).
Three new indicators, Sustainability, Employment Outcomes, and International Research Network were incorporated into the QS World University Ranking 2024. Universities are ranked based on nine criteria:
| Criteria | Weight |
| Academic reputation from Global Survey | 30% |
| Employer reputation from Global Survey | 15% |
| Citations per faculty from Scopus | 20% |
| Faculty student ratio | 10% |
| Proportion of international students | 5% |
| Proportion of international faculty | 5% |
| Internation Research Network | 5% |
| Employment Outcomes | 5% |
| Sustainability | 5% |
From: https://support.qs.com/hc/en-gb/articles/4405955370898-QS-World-University-Rankings-
You can view rankings by region and location, or search for universities.
The QS Top 50 under 50 is a ranking of the world's top universities established within the last 50 years.
Also known as Ranking Web of World Universities, this ranking system developed by Cybermetrics Lab of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) evaluates universities in the world based on their web presence and activity. More than 30,000 Higher Education Institutions around the world are covered.
Three criteria are used to obtain data for ranking:
| Criteria | Weight |
| Visibility - Number of external networks (subnets) linking to the institution's webpages | 50% |
Transparency - Number of citations from  Top 310 authors |
10% |
|
Excellence - Number of papers amongst the top 10% most cited in each one of the all 27 disciplines of the full database |
40% |
From: http://www.webometrics.info/en/Methodology
You can tell from each ranking list on this site the position of a university in the world or within a region. The numbers on the right show the rank of a particular university for each of the individual criterion.
