Rankings

Times Higher Education (THE) is an internationally recognized organization providing data and assessments in higher education. It evaluates university performance across areas such as teaching, research, research quality, international outlook, and industry engagement using a range of indicators. The THE World University Rankings is one of its best-known ranking systems, providing a comparative assessment of universities worldwide. THE also publishes rankings including the Impact Rankings, Subject Rankings, and Interdisciplinary Science Rankings. Its evaluations serve as an important reference for monitoring universities’ global visibility, academic reputation, institutional performance, and international competitiveness.

The Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings assess universities worldwide based on their contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The rankings evaluate how universities create social, economic, and environmental impact through research, education, outreach, sustainability practices, and partnerships. Institutions are assessed across various SDG areas, including quality education, gender equality, clean energy, climate action, and sustainable cities. The THE Impact Rankings highlight not only universities’ academic contributions but also their broader role in addressing global challenges, supporting their communities, and contributing to a more sustainable future.

The Times Higher Education (THE) Subject Rankings evaluate universities worldwide based on their performance in specific academic disciplines. Universities are assessed through performance indicators covering areas such as teaching, research environment, research quality, international outlook, and industry engagement. The rankings cover a wide range of disciplines, including engineering, business and economics, social sciences, health sciences, education, and computer science. THE Subject Rankings provide an international perspective on universities’ academic and research performance within individual fields, enabling institutions to benchmark their strengths and identify the disciplines in which they demonstrate a strong global presence.

The Best Global Universities Rankings, published by U.S. News & World Report, evaluate universities worldwide based primarily on their academic research performance and global reputation. The rankings consider research-focused indicators such as global and regional research reputation, publications, citations, international collaboration, and highly influential research. They provide a comparative perspective on universities’ research strength and academic impact, serving as an international reference for assessing institutional performance and global standing.

The U.S. News Subject Rankings evaluate universities’ research performance and scientific impact within specific academic fields on a global scale. Subject-level assessments consider indicators related to research reputation, publications, citation impact, international collaboration, and highly influential research. Covering a broad range of disciplines, including engineering, computer science, economics and business, environmental sciences, and health-related fields, these rankings enable universities’ research strengths and international academic visibility in individual disciplines to be compared globally.

The Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS), published by Shanghai Ranking, is an international ranking system that assesses universities by academic subject rather than through a single overall list. Separate rankings are published for more than fifty subjects across natural sciences, engineering, life sciences, medical sciences, and social sciences. Its methodology considers the number of papers published in first-quartile (Q1) journals, category-normalised citation impact, the share of internationally co-authored publications, research appearing in the leading journals of each subject, and academic staff receiving significant awards in their field. GRAS provides an important reference for identifying the academic disciplines in which universities demonstrate strong research performance at an international level.

The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is an international ranking system that evaluates universities and research institutions across three main dimensions: research, innovation, and societal impact. Its indicators consider areas such as scientific output, research impact and quality, international collaboration, innovation capacity, and institutional visibility. Using bibliometric information derived from Scopus data alongside other indicators, SCImago provides a comparative perspective on institutions’ research performance and their broader academic, innovative, and societal impact.

The SCImago Subject Rankings enable institutions’ research performance to be assessed across specific academic fields and disciplines. Across areas such as medicine, engineering, computer science, business, social sciences, environmental science, and energy, institutions can be compared through indicators related to scientific output, research impact, publication quality, and international collaboration. Subject-based assessments provide valuable insight into the disciplines in which universities demonstrate strong research performance and help institutions benchmark their position and scientific impact within specific fields at an international level.

The UI GreenMetric World University Rankings is an international ranking system that evaluates universities worldwide based on their sustainability and environmental performance. The ranking assesses institutions across seven main areas: setting and infrastructure, energy and climate change, waste, water, transportation, education and research, and governance and digitalization. It considers universities’ environmental sustainability policies, efficient use of resources, initiatives to reduce their carbon footprint, and contributions to sustainability through education and research. UI GreenMetric enables higher education institutions to benchmark their sustainable campus practices, monitor their environmental performance, and demonstrate their commitment to creating more sustainable university campuses at an international level.