Round University Ranking

Round University Ranking (RUR) is an international university rankings published by the Ranking Agency RUR. The rankings have evaluated the activity of 1000+ leading universities from 85 countries around the world for the period of 13 years (2010-2022) on 20 indicators assessing 4 groups of universities activity: quality of teaching, quality of research, level of internationalization and level of financial sustainability. Such a wide coverage, both geographically and temporally, makes RUR a unique tool for choosing universities for study and work comparing and correlating higher education institutions on a global scale. In addition to the overall ranking, RUR includes 30 rankings on 6 subject areas: humanities, life sciences, medical sciences, natural sciences, social sciences, engineering.

Round University Ranking is the comprehensive system of world university rankings which includes 4 main rankings with prospectives for expansions and also sub-rankings within the 4 key rankings:

• RUR Overall Ranking:
  Overall Ranking evaluates instituional performance by 20 indicators which are grouped in 4 dimensions. In turn each dimension of Overall ranking forms a separate ranking where 5 metrics of each 4 groups are included.
• RURSubject Rankings:
  The methodology of subject rankings is identical to the methodology of the overall ranking. In rankings by 6 broad subject areas we use the same 20 indicators, grouped in 4 dimension areas. What differentiate these two sets of rankings is the raw data used in each of the group.
  Each of the subject rankings falls into 5 rankings: overall (20 indicators) and 4 dimension rankings (5 indicators per each ranking).
• RUR Reputation Rankings:
  RUR Reputation Rankings are aimed to measure universities brand, influence of a particular institution globally. This ranking assess institutions by only two indicators (teaching and research reputation) with the same weight of 50% per each indicator
• RUR Research Perfomance Ranking:
  RUR Research Performance Ranking evaluates institution’s performance in terms of its scientific effectiveness, quality and recognition of researches conducted in certain university. The selection of scientometric indicators, some of which coincides with RUR Research sub ranking metrics, is used in this ranking.

Benha University in Round Ranking