Ratings

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings is an annual publication which analyses the overall performance of universities worldwide. The rankings are released by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine. The universities are judged across a variety of different fields: teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook. To achieve this, 13 performance indicators have been designed to...

The International organization Global Footprint Network published its annual The National Footprint Accounts 2019 (NFAs), upgrading the data and interactive maps on the ecological impact for over 200 countries and regions in the world using U.N. data from 1961 to 2016. Traditionally, the methodology of NFAs is based on the comparison of two indicators in relation to each other: ecological footprint (human demand on goods and services...

Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is a global management consulting firm and a leading advisor on business strategy, which annually releases a ranking of the most innovative companies. The BCG ranking participants are chosen using a combination of quantitative and qualitative criteria. Companies are required to have annual revenue of at least $1 billion, a thousand or more employees, and growth rates that exceed their domestic GDP or...

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS World University Rankings are among the most important, most-referenced rankings. They rely heavily on academic surveys, asking thousands of academics worldwide about the reputation of universities. The QS World Rankings exhibit a fairly consistent methodology which uses six metrics that can effectively describe university...

Since 2005, the international Climate Change Performance Index (CCPI) annually evaluates the environmental protection performance of countries and how they are dealing with global climate change. The developers of the index are the German independent organizations Germanwatch and the New Climate Institute in cooperation with the Climate Action Network, which unites more than 1,300 environmental NGOs from 120 countries around the world....

Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company located in New York City.It annually publishes the Bloomberg Innovation Index, which ranks the world’s 60 most innovative countries. The index uses seven criteria metrics including Research and Development Expenditure as a percentage of GDP, Productivity, Patent Activity, Concentration of Researchers, as well as Concentration of High-tech Companies. The...

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings were established in 2004 and include the world's overall, subject, and reputation rankings, as well as three regional tables, including Asia, Latin America, and BRICS & Emerging Economies. The rankings table for engineering and technology features the universities that are leading across subjects, such as general engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and civil...

EY (Ernst & Young) - one of the world's largest audit and consulting companies - has published a new index, which includes 40 countries that are the most attractive in terms of developing renewable energy sources. The methodology of the study includes 5 pillars: macrovitals, energy imperative, project delivery, and technology potential (solar, wind, geothermal, etc.). Each of these pillars has internal parameters such as economic...

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) is an American worldwide management consulting firm with 90 offices in 50 countries. The firm advises clients in the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors around the world. It releases an annual ranking of the 50 most innovative companies. The 2016 report can be viewed here. Its methodology is based on a survey of senior executives who represent a wide variety of industries in every region...

The National Footprint Accounts (NFAs) annually track and update countries’ natural resources use, including their ecological footprint and biocapacity, offering interactive world maps for over 200 nations and regions at data.footprintnetwork.org. The research is provided by the international organization Global Footprint Network in cooperation with the International Energy Agency and more than 70 other organizations worldwide. The...