These figures are the ones currently (June 2018) appearing in Wikipedia for the University of the Witwatersrand.

Take your choice of which of the following to believe!

• 8th Bloomberg Billionaire Ranking (2014)
• 24th Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index (2013)
• 139th Tredence-Emerging Global Employability University Ranking (2013)
• 149th Center for World University Rankings (2015)
• 201st-300th Academic Ranking of World Universities (2015)
• 251st-300th Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2108)
• 316th University Ranking by Academic Performance (2016/7)
• 318th QS World University Rankings (2014/5)

I feel confused by all the indices, but proud that I obtained my degrees there.

These figures are the ones currently (June 2018) appearing in Wikipedia for the University of the Witwatersrand.

Take your choice of which of the following to believe!

• 8th Bloomberg Billionaire Ranking (2014)
• 24th Times Higher Education Alma Mater Index (2013)
• 139th Tredence-Emerging Global Employability University Ranking (2013)
• 149th Center for World University Rankings (2015)
• 201st-300th Academic Ranking of World Universities (2015)
• 251st-300th Times Higher Education World University Rankings (2108)
• 316th University Ranking by Academic Performance (2016/7)
• 318th QS World University Rankings (2014/5)

I feel confused by all the indices, but proud that I obtained my degrees there.

The ranking of a university varies with the agencies marking it. Again, the feeling that depends on the credibility, status and aspirations of an individual. One may feel great to study in one which ranks among the top 500, the other may struggle within the top ten. Thus the feelings is subjective.

Thank you for sharing Dr. Kennedy!

My University was not actually featured in the world ranking. Well, the reason might not be far fetched, the university has a poor ranking even among Nigerian Universities. Well, I feel sad, but I still hope for a better tomorrow.

I am optimistic that with more infrastructural facilities in place and recruitment of more competent academia, the University will do well.

My department at the University of Texas in Austin was ranked 11th when I was there. My department was the Educational Psychology department.

11th in the U.S.

651-700 QS World University Rankings

not good

277 QS

We are an emerging research university in Kazakhstan and have specifically sought to not try to be ranked until at least 10 years in. We have been guided by top scholars in the field such as Professor Salmi who suggest only to compare rankings based upon particular benchmarking instead of looking at the overall number which we know is inadequate to address many aspects.

Interesting @CohenMiller! Thank you for sharing.!

Well, since my chancellor gave the last state of the university address, UIC sits pretty good in terms of doing research globally

Among the top 500, my university, University of Lisbon, was ranked 160th.

Best regards,

Orlando

Thank you @Dr. Eric Hilary Smith, Dr. Qais Faryadi,and @Dr. Orlando M Lourenço for sharing!

I don't know, and I have never cared. Rankings are generally harmful, whether applied to students or institutions. (For students they compare current class - which varies year by year. The same average one year might put a student at the top of a less able cohort, or another year well down in a particularly good year.)

For institutions. Firstly they are a conglomerate of arbitrary factors combined in a weighting which is often obscure and cannot be justified. This often includes effectively a bonus for being rich. Secondly, major differences in rank can occur from differences in overall score which are quite without significance. Thirdly they are widely misused to suggest that high rank means good teaching in all departments, and low rank means vice versa.

Hi, thank you @Dr. Martin John Pitt. But don't you think it also provides a platform for a sound competition between universities worldwide. In attempting to get higher ratings, the higher education institutes strive to improve their research citations, graduation rates, attract more international students by offering students funds, and further their academic and staff reputation.

Thank you @ Ismail W. R. Taifa. Howe about your university?

Hello

I studied in Fluminense Federal University in Brazil.

According Wikipedia, "It is considered one of the main centers of excellence in Brazil, ranked in the 9th position in the Center for World University Rankings of the best universities [7] in the country. UFF is among the top 25 universities in Latin America,[8] according to research published by the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities. Besides, UFF has become the sixteenth largest university in the country, the sixth largest public university and the third largest federal university in the country."

It was good to me because I had good basic learning compared another universities.

It might be interesting to compare the Total RG Score with one of the Rankings.

The university is among the top 650 universities in the world according to QS World University Ranking and ranks 78th among the universities of the BRICS (QS World University Rankings: BRICS). This does not seriously affect either my feelings or my attitude towards the University

is there any unified query tool for university rankings?

In response to Abdullah Noori 's question. The book "I want you to cheat" by John Seddon describes how individuals and institutions act to manipulate the metrics by which they are judged rather than doing their job well. One of the evil ways is the present focus on "student satisfaction" where it is possible for a small department to persuade (by bribes or threats) all the respondents to say they are totally satisfied. On a more general level, student satisfaction tends to come from high grades in easy courses and a lack of rigor. Academics are now routinely encouraged to manage publications in a way which will give the department the highest score in various research assessments.

Thank you Martin John Pitt. I agree with you to a certain extent because I am aware that some higher educational institutions cheat on way or another to get into top rankings. However, this can not be true for the majority of the institutions. Most universities strive to improve especially their educational and research standards. A good example would be Universiti Technologi MARA in Malaysia (http://uitm.edu.my). The university has come along way and has continually raised up in the QS Rankings in the last 10 years.

Overall, UiTM has shown an increase with a score of 326, which was mostly contributed by graduates' reputation according to employers and the H-index from Scopus. The increase in graduates’ reputation indicator shows that employers' confidence in UiTM graduates continues to grow from year to year. Meanwhile, the increase in the H-index from Scopus shows that UiTM's academic staff has succeeded in producing quality research writing, which has become an international reference.

Thank you Ismail W. R. Taifa! Yes, there is a direct and significant relationship between the university ranking and the employability aspect. Graduates from Oxford or Harverd Universities have way higher employibility chances than graduate from Osmania University in India. Please check out this article:

Martin Sanchis, R. (2017). Internationally orientated higher education institutions & Graduate employability (Bachelor's thesis, University of Twente).

Hi @Luana Costa! Yest there is. Higher education institutions should adopt an international perspective and actively promote international mobility of students and staff; provide world-class innovative curricula as well as excellence in teaching and research opportunities; and enter into cooperation and strategic partnerships with other higher educational institutions, government institutions, the private sector and civil society around the world (European Commission, 2013, p. 4).

Well, I graduated from a university (ranked around 2000) located in a developing country (my home country). Most of the faculty members had obtained their PhD degree from reputed foreign universities and used to provide good quality of lectures. The curriculum was rich and assessment system was good. But it didn't have very good infrastructure, lots of foreign students and international publication, hence the ranking was poor. But I always felt that, it was making me competent enough to compete with the world. After graduating from there, I got admitted in a University ranked 46th in QC world university ranking and doing PhD here. Same thing happened to my other class mates (also seniors & juniors). They obtained there PhD degree from reputed universities around the globe and doing really well. So, I really don't believe that, ranking is much important.

Hi, Abdullah Noori yes, these are recommendations. Use the unified rankings because the answers, there are several rankings and I believe, each one needs different from each other.

My university is not one of the first in the world, it is certainly number 13 of 27 existing in Cuba with the number 8173 of the 11,998 existing in the world, placing my country at 14 on a glogal level, that makes me feel a lot tremendous pride starting from the fact that we are a center enclabado in a small country, the third world although developing, where all the resources that are allocated for its operation start from the demonized budget of the state, university from which thousands annually graduate of professionals of the most diverse branches of knowledge, among which is a high degree of mastery and social commitment, which is the prinicpal to be an excellent professional, we also have the privilege of graduating in undergraduate and postgraduate students of various nationalities of several countries of the world, students who leave satisfied by the attention and the quality of the knowledge that is delivered to them by teachers that although extremely young at times, demonstrate high levels of dominoio and pedagogical, didactic and professional competences, recognized nationally and internationally, summoned of pre and postgraduate programs of higher education centers of different countries for their quality as researchers and trainers of generations of competent and committed professionals

Thank you all for the wonderful shares!

I assume that my university is not mentioned in a worldwide report on ranking universities. It could be that this is caused that they offered me to become there professor.

The Brazilian universities do not stand out in the world scenario, because there is an own internal program called Qualis, an old system created with a specific purpose, and that today serves a totally different purpose from the original one. Thus, the global view of Brazilian science has gradually gained space in the international scene, but there are many traditional visions that end up impeding this evolution.

We are an emerging university. Research and development is beyond comparable with those in the list. Many things has to be done to improve the current status. Perhaps you could provide inputs to improving our processes and systems.

The Tbilisi State University is one of the largest higher educational institutions by its scales. Today about 22 thousand students are undergoing studies at seven faculties of TSU.

Tbilisi State University is an active member of leading international education networks and is proud of its alumni - prominent professors, scientists and graduates, who have successfully integrated into the European community and gained the recognition worldwide

Thank you @Dr. Hein Retter, @Dr. da Silva, @Dr. Billy Javier, and @Dr. Pikira Vardosanidze for sharing information about where your respected universities stand in the world rankings.

You're welcome Dr. Noori, I hope the current status of the University would somehow improve in the next years to come. For now, we just have to improve from our gaps

Unfortunately my university (Benghazi University) rated 3000 in world rankings , but I think that the ranking of the university has nothing to do with the efficiency of the researcher.

Best Regards @Abdullah Noori

My university, the University of Ibadan, used to be a reference point for scholars in Africa in the decades spanning the 1960s to 1980s. However it lost this status following poor economic management of the country, Nigeria. Now the university is still the best in Nigeria though in world ranking it is rated 600. Thanks.

My institution gains a raising place in these rakings. This makes staff and the local communities pleased. Especially bearing in mind the challenges that our country and tertiary education specifically face finance-wise.

The top 24 University/ Institutes of India according to QS world university ranking:

https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/2019?utm_medium=SMPost&utm_camp%E2%80%A6

how can improve the rank of Iraq universities

The universities whitch located in Iran should not compare with other universities over the world and you should the subject ranking for true Iranian ranking. Because in Iran, the Medical Sciences (including clinical and basic medical sciences) are an independent university.

My university is Middle Technical University in Iraq. It is out of Qs

My university is rapidly advancing in world ranks, staying in the first 400-500 overall and in 100-200 top universities worldwide in particular subjects. However, most of the faculty look at those figures with frustration -- the job conditions (especially salaries) and the quality of students in many programs do not follow the overall progress in ranking.