University and School Rankings

In choosing a university or a school, its rank in the world and in the UK can be considered. But we need to understand how the ranks were created in order to match the criterion that we are looking for. Below are the partial listings of such ranking systems.


Rankings of World Universities:

  1. The QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) World Universities Ranking (QS): www.topuniversities.com.
  2. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), previously: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Ranking: http://www.arwu.org/index.jsp.
    • For UK universities, 2010: http://www.arwu.org/Country2010Main.jsp?param=United Kingdom
  3. Times Higher Education (THE): www.timeshighereducation.co.uk.
  4. Webometrics:
  5. UI Green Metric World University Ranking:

                http://greenmetric.ui.ac.id/id/page/ranking

Rankings of UK Universities:

  1. The Complete University Guide: http://www.thecompleteuniversityguide.co.uk/league-tables/rankings
  2. The Guardian University League Table: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/universityguide
  3. The Sunday Times: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/University_Guide/
  4. The Times Good University Guide (also sold in form of a book, yearly): http://extras.thetimes.co.uk/gooduniversityguide/institutions/

Rankings for Primary and Secondary Schools in UK:

The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking