Our approach to world university ranking.
We analyzed the other rankings and critical scientific literature to find a way to correct at least some of the existing shortcomings.
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Selection Wide selection of higher education institutions.
The only selection criterion for inclusion in the ranking is the issuance of bachelor’s degrees and above with 4+ years of study.
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Data Self-collected data.
We don’t use any data provided by universities or data that a university can tamper with without actual improvements.
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Metrics Metric-based approach.
We believe that ranking by metrics is the only possible approach to rank 14,131 universities in 183 countries – no surveys, no experts.
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45% Research performance.
We use the OpenAlex database as a proxy to retrieve scientific publications and links between them (citations) to calculate the weight.
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45% Non-academic prominence.
We use the same approach that Google uses to calculate the reputation of individual web pages – backlinks to a university from other sites.
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10% Alumni score.
The indicator reflects the combined number of page views that a university’s graduates have on all 43 language versions of Wikipedia.
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