Institution Data
Canada’s Higher Education Institutions are Moving to the Cloud
With last week’s announcement of Oracle setting up its own Canadian cloud service -this, following in the footsteps of Google (2018), AWS (2017), Azure (2016) and IBM (2015), it got me thinking how Canadian colleges and Universities have progressed in terms of moving their systems to the cloud. In the past, we have heard stories ... Canada’s Higher Education Institutions are Moving to the Cloud Read More
The U.S. is not actually dominating university rankings. Here’s why.
I’m always amazed by the amount of institutions that the United States has in the top 100, 200, 300 or 400 of World university rankings. It always has more than any other country. This amount has been decreasing in the last few years but it’s still four times as many as its closest competition. The ... The U.S. is not actually dominating university rankings. Here’s why. Read More
World Rankings and the Rise of Europe, Not Asia
One of the great things about this site is all the complimentary data we receive. One of these datasets is the 8 world rankings that we compile yearly. In the past we have played with this data to show 9 World University rankings – Side by side – part 1 and make a Historical compilation of 7 world ... World Rankings and the Rise of Europe, Not Asia Read More
7,685 Colleges and Universities in the United States
As you can see below, I created a visualization using the coordinates of all 7,685 active HigherEd Institutions in the US. I started playing with all the statistics in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) after reading Phil Hill’s articles on the new IPEDS Data. The amount of facts & figures on US HigherEd ... 7,685 Colleges and Universities in the United States Read More
8 World University Rankings – Side by Side 2013
As stated in the post I published 6 months ago (9 World University Rankings – Side by Side), the different world university rankings are somewhat controversial. Their methodology are often dissected to show flaws, and universities often dislike them because of the influence they have come to wield. Not one ranking has been hailed as ... 8 World University Rankings – Side by Side 2013 Read More
Alexa vs World University rankings
I was looking at Alexa’s Traffic Rank and how it allows you to compare websites. This got me thinking that evaluating a URL is a bit like evaluating an university or a college. You can compare its popularity, reference, credibility, incoming links, or measure its relative importance, influence, citations, etc. So I decided to compare ... Alexa vs World University rankings Read More
Canheit – Technology used in Canadian Institutions
As promised in my first Canheit tribute post, I have created a second vizualisation based on technology used by Canadian higher education institutions (colleges and universities). The following viz has 5 main graphs, each representing a different category. The size of each bubble represents the percentage for each system used compared the other systems in ... Canheit – Technology used in Canadian Institutions Read More
Canadian HigherEd Institutions
Since CANHEIT 2013 is being held in Ottawa and co-hosted by Carleton University and the great University of Ottawa (that’s right, I’m biased), I decided to do a few vizualisations about our Canadian HigherEd institutions. In this first vizualisation, I’m hopping to show general characteristics about our Canadian institutions. The next ones will be more ... Canadian HigherEd Institutions Read More
Historical compilation of 7 world universities rankings: huge drop for US, rise for French
After reading an article from HESA where the author explains (referring to Times Higher Education’s annual Reputation Rankings) that “only the position of the top 6 or so is genuinely secure. Below about tenth position, everyone else is packed so closely together that changes in rank order are basically guaranteed”, we wanted to see how ... Historical compilation of 7 world universities rankings: huge drop for US, rise for French Read More
World University rankings by Country – part 2
This is the second part of our world university rankings posts. See the first post that lists the top 100 universities (based on 9 world university rankings). Based on almost the same logic used in our first post, we took the top 300 universities and compiled the 9 world rankings. Note that, for some universities, ... World University rankings by Country – part 2 Read More
