Value proposition

Universities compared. Your way.

U-Multirank is a new multidimensional, user-driven approach to international ranking of higher education institutions. It compares the performances of higher education institutions – in short: universities – in the five broad dimensions of university activity: (1) teaching and learning, (2) research, (3) knowledge transfer, (4) international orientation and (5) regional engagement. The U-Multirank web tool enables comparisons at the level of the university as a whole and at the level of specific fields of study. Based on empirical data U-Multirank compares institutions with similar institutional profiles (‘like-with-like’) and allows users to develop their own personalised rankings by selecting indicators in terms of their own preferences.

On 5 June 2018 the fifth edition of U-Multirank was published, now covering 1,614 higher education institutions from 95 countries. U-Multirank presents an institutional ranking of whole universities and a series of 21 subject rankings presenting data on more than 5,100 faculties/departments and more than 12,000 degree programmes.

U-Multirank is an independent non-commercial ranking prepared with funding from the European Commission’s Erasmus+ programme, the German Bertelsmann Foundation and Banco Santander (Spain). U-Multirank is run by a international consortium led by the German Centre for Higher Education (CHE), the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies (CHEPS) at University of Enschede, and the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) at Leiden University. The work of the U-Multirank consortium is overseen by an Advisory Board.