While it is important that Birmingham performs well in comparison to its peers in the UK, the academic community is global and the University is seeking to advance its international profile. Therefore, our performance against the world’s universities is particularly important, for the University, and for the future careers of our staff and students.
The most internationally recognised and reputed worldwide rankings include the following –
International Herald Tribune - Global Employability Ranking
The International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, has ranked the University of Birmingham 55th in the world and 9th in UK for post qualification employability. The rankings illustrate the top 150 universities most frequently selected by global employers.
Emerging, a French consulting firm, surveyed employers on which schools they tended to rely on, and on what qualities made job candidates most employable. Carried out in collaboration with Trendence, a German consulting firm, the survey included hundreds of employers from 10 countries.
The study, resulting in the Emerging/Trendence Global Employability Ranking — a list that includes the traditional top elite schools in North America as well as relative newcomers in Asia and Europe, is meant to give “universities, recruiters and students the most valuable of tools: a road-tested blueprint of where it’s best to study in order to get a job”, Emerging said as it released its findings.
Top European universities in Engineering
Birmingham has been ranked as the 13th highest performing university for it's publications impact in Europe out of 109,500 institutions surveyed.
The ranking collated using the Essential Science Indicators database of Thomson Reuters, covered the period January 2000 to August 2010. The ranking used data which was surveyed from journal articles (original research reports and review articles) indexed by Thomson Reuters. The articles were assigned to a category based on the journals in which they were published and the Thomson Reuters journal-to-field classification scheme. The ranking is by citations per paper (impact) for European universities that published 1,000 or more papers in engineering during the period. .
For more information about the ranking, please visit the Times Higher Education website.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University World Rankings
The latest Jiao Tong Academic Ranking of World Universities was published in August 2010: we are ranked 99th, placing us within the top 100 universities in the world out of 501 universities included in the ranking. This establishes us as 11th out of the 40 UK universities to appear in this ranking and 11th out of the 20 Russell Group universities in the ranking.
For more information about the methodology used in compiling the Jiao Tong ranking, please visit the ARWU website.
QS World University Rankings
QS World University Rankings were published in September 2010: we are ranked 59th internationally in the top-200 world universities. This places us as 10th out of 29 UK universities to feature in the rankings and 10th out of the 20 Russell Group universities to feature in the ranking.
Find information about the methodology used in compiling the THE World Rankings 2010 by visiting the QS World University Rankings website.