NURE positions in uniRank University Ranking (tab uniRank University Ranking)
uniRank™ is the leading international higher education directory and search engine featuring reviews and rankings of over 13,900 officially recognized Universities and Colleges in 200 countries (https://www.4icu.org/about/).
The current uniRank University Ranking™ is based upon an algorithm including 4 unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from 3 different web intelligence sources:
- Majestic Referring Domains with a minimum Trust Flow (55%);
- Similarweb Global Rank (35%);
- Moz Domain Authority (5%);
- Majestic Trust Flow (5%).
The exact formula adopted to aggregate the 5 web metrics is not disclosed for copyright reasons and to minimise attempts of manipulation from University webmasters in order to achieve a better rank. The same philosophy is adopted by Google with regards to their search engine ranking algorithm. Being the uniRank University Ranking™ a web-based non-academic University ranking, the need for ranking methodology transparency and the ability of testing and reproducing the results, as suggested by the Berlin Principles on Ranking of Higher Education Institutions, is less stringent than for academic University rankings.
The aim of the uniRank University Ranking™ is to provide an approximate global ranking of world Universities and Colleges based upon their web presence and popularity in terms of estimated traffic, trust/authority and quality link popularity. This is especially intended to help international students and academic staff to understand how popular a specific higher education institution is in a foreign country.
Indicators:
- the level of attendance at the university site;
- the number of active pages;
- performance metrics of flow;
- number of unique visitors;
- the number of page views on the university website from mobile devices and PC users.
