2012 Academic World Ranking of Universities: A Quick Analysis
The world awaits: 2012/13 QS World University Rankings
Governments on four continents will join prospective students and universities themselves in poring over next week’s QS World University Rankings. The rankings, which will be published on September 11, are intended primarily to guide international students, their parents and advisors in their choice of university. This year, there will be 700 institutions to compare on
The surveys behind the 2012/13 QS World University Rankings
The World University Rankings for 2012/13 will be published next week. At their heart is the biggest-ever snapshot of informed global judgment on higher education. To create this picture, we carried out two surveys. One gathered the opinion of active academics on the universities that excel in the subjects they know about. The other asked
Getting Specific: Excellence Identified in 29 Disciplines
The QS World University Rankings by Subject are designed to provide targeted information to university applicants, academics, and anyone else who needs to know where there is excellence in a specific discipline. One unique feature of these rankings is that it is possible for universities which would never be prominent in the overall World University
Analyzing the 2012 QS World University Rankings by Subject
Universities from a total of 17 different countries on five continents make the top 20 in at least one of the new subject rankings published by QS. The rankings – now in their second year – cover a record 29 disciplines. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard underline their place at the forefront
Quotas established in Belgium to control the number of international students
Last month, Belgium announced the implementation of quotas for international students for medicine and dentistry, officially targeting students who have not lived in Belgium for at least three years by restricting to a proportion of 30% of non-residents, concretely; French students are the most affected by this measure. Currently 20 to 30% of first-year students
European Universities Games held in Spain
While the UK is busy undergoing the final preparations for this year’s Olympics, Spain has been playing host to the first European Universities Games. Organized by the European Universities Sports Association (EUSA), this first edition of the European Universities Games was held in Cordoba, in southern Spain, between 13 and 23 July 2012. More than
Behind the balance sheets: how will your university tuition fees be spent?
Yale University’s latest financial report shows that income from students – including tuition fees, accommodation and other charges – accounted for only 8.6% of the university’s total operating revenue in the 2010-11 academic year. Other major sources of funding for universities are governments, businesses and non-profit organizations, income from investments, and private donors such as