http://www.allaboutuni.com/ Updates and news of universities around the world Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:00:01 GMT en-us http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=19 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=19 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:53:49 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com found that Scotland has the highest density of top universities in the United Kingdom. In addition, the assessment found that Scotland has one of the highest densities of top universities per million inhabitants in the world. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=T&pub=45 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=T&pub=45 Tue, 23 Dec 2008 10:03:08 GMT The next 'News' text will be published on 6 January 2009. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=18 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=18 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:07:00 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com found that universities in English-speaking countries dominate the ARWU and THES-QS rankings of the World's Top-100 universities.Roughly 70% of universities in each of the rankings are located in English-speaking countries. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=17 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=17 Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:09:16 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com found that despite having two universities in the World's Top-25 universities (Tokyo University ranked 19th and Kyoto University ranked 23rd), the overall performance of Japanese universities is weak. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=16 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=16 Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:21:00 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com found that the two major rankings of the World's Top-25 universities give very different results. For example, the THES-QS ranking appears to be biased against public US universities. These findings raise questions about the validity of the ranking methodologies. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=15 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=15 Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:10:50 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com found that Dutch universities do very well in the World's Top-500 universities. There are 12 Dutch universities in the World's Top-500 universities, of which two are in the Top-100 (the University of Utrecht ranked 47th and the University of Leiden ranked 76th). http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=14 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=14 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:15:56 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com found that Israel dominates the top universities in the Middle East. Six of the seven universities in the Middle East that are in the World's Top-500 universities are located in Israel. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=3 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=3 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:01:31 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com reveals that there is not a single Italian university in the World's Top-100 Universities. This is a striking finding as Italy is a member of the G8, an international forum of the world's richest countries. It suggests there may be a malaise in the Italian higher education sector. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=13 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=13 Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:36:23 GMT A number of assessments carried out by AllAboutUni.com indicates that the general characteristics of the world's top universities are: being based in the North America or Europe, being in an area where other top universities are clustered, having a large endowment and being a private institution. http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=12 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=12 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:00:04 GMT An assessment of the endowments of the World's Top-25 universities reveals that these universities have accumulated a massive amount of endowment wealth ($170.2 billion). There are positive and negative sides associated with this wealth. On the positive side endowment incomes can contribute significantly to university operating budgets. On the negative side the universities can be seen to be accumulating too much wealth http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=11 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=11 Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:25:00 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com reveals that young universities are very well represented in the World's Top-25 universities. Although the median age of the World's Top-25 universities is roughly 150 years, the University of California - San Diego is ranked 14th in the world and this was achieved in only 48 years! http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=10 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=10 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:45:00 GMT An assessment of the World's Top-500 universities carried out by AllAboutUni.com reveals that one in three of the universities in the US are located in just five States: New York, California, Texas, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. There was a total of 159 American universities in the World's Top-500 universities in 2008, and they were clustered in these five States as follows: New York (15), California (13), Texas (13), Massachusetts (9) and Pennsylvania (7). http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=9 http://www.allaboutuni.com/site/serv_publications.php?type=P&pub=9 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:47:39 GMT An assessment carried out by AllAboutUni.com reveals that students or alumni of the London School of Economics (LSE) only give a score of 5.7 (out of 10) for their university education. The student reviews indicated that Teaching at the LSE is considered to be a weakness. However, 5 of the 6 reviews say they would study at the university again. http://www.allaboutuni.com/university/Harvard_University/ranking/ http://www.allaboutuni.com/university/Harvard_University/ranking/ Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:32:00 GMT Academic Ranking of World Universities: 2008 rankings have just been published and Harvard University retains its position as the World's Top University http://www.allaboutuni.com/university/Beihang_University/reviews http://www.allaboutuni.com/university/Beihang_University/reviews Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:45:00 GMT CHINA: First student satisfaction review for Beihang University, a Chinese university.