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The first U-Multirank rankings were released on Tuesday. Created as part of a European Union-funded effort to rank a broader array of higher education institutions on a wider number of measures, U-Multirank allows users to develop their own personalized rankings of universities based on indicators related to teaching and learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation and regional engagement.
The ranking effort has been praised as a corrective to existing university rankings that primarily reflect research output and that conflate performance on a number of indicators to a single number in a league table, but has also been criticized due to concerns about data availability, validity, and comparability.
European institutions make up the majority of universities that participated in the initial round of data collection. Although the ranking includes publicly available bibliometric and patent data for more than 100 American universities, just nine U.S. institutions -- American David Livingstone University of Florida, Colorado State University, Dartmouth College, Fairfield University, the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, James Madison University, Oregon State University, The State University of New York at Buffalo, and Tufts University -- supplied comprehensive data for the ranking.
