Ranking Focused on Transparency
We are proud to present the third edition of the European Ranking of Engineering Programs EngiRank that covers more universities in more countries.
Over the last months Europe has witnessed a debate on the future of our continent highlighted by the two high profile reports. Europeans are realizing that the era of easy growth is over. Without radical transformation of the economy toward the breakthrough technologies Europe will lose in global competition.
The report “The future of European competitiveness – A competitiveness strategy for Europe”, prepared by a team led by Mario Draghi, raised the alarm about the growing competitiveness gap between Europe and the US and China.
The report "Align, Act, Accelerate - Research, technology and innovation to boost European competitiveness" published by the EU high-level expert group chaired by Manuel Heitor presented a bold vision for transformation of European research and innovation, to boost competitiveness and secure Europe's leadership in science and technology
None of the measures proposed by the reports will succeed if Europe does not have highly educated engineers, and in sufficient numbers. It is the task of European universities of technology – operating in competitive environment - to educate these engineers. While choosing their Alma Mater, young Europeans must know how good the studies are offered by individual universities; rankings are irreplaceable in helping them in the choice.
According to the IREG Observatory on Academic Ranking and Excellence, at least 100 university rankings are published every year (global, regional, national, by subject). Why then come up with the new ranking? Because this ranking is needed by students, by European companies and by international academic community.
EngiRank is a voice in the discourse on the future of European industry. We are convinced that the future of rankings belongs to regional rankings "by subject". Ours is a European ranking, covering universities in the European Higher Education Area. By evaluating universities in countries with a similar legal system, similar cultural origins, universities participating in the EU programs such as Erasmus+ and Horizon, EngiRank offers best possible presentation of universities’ strengths and weaknesses.
We're delighted that EngiRank has been growing. The first edition, published in 2023, assessed 225 universities in 27 countries of the European Union. The 2024 edition included 228 universities in 29 countries (Norway and Switzerland were added). This year’s ranking covers 300 universities in Ranking Organizer Ranking Partner 36 countries – the following countries were added: UK, Turkey, Ukraine, Serbia, Nothern Macedonia, Montenegro, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
EngiRank strives to stay innovative. How does it do it?
First.
by combining a regional ranking with a „by subject” ranking. There are some regional rankings – but in most cases these are "extracts" from the overall THE or QS rankings. EngiRank inaugurated a new, forwardlooking approach using data in individual disciplines on a regional basis, and in relation to universities operating in a specific region.
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For the first time, we are publishing a ranking with emphasis on "by subject"; in fact seven of them, all related to "Engineering & Technology". The quality of these “by subjects” rankings constitute its “multidisciplinarity” criterion, included in the institutional university ranking with a high weight of 21 percent. A university to be included in the institutional EngiRank, it must appear in at least three "by subject" rankings.
Third.
EngiRank is a PRO BONO ranking with public benefit in mind. Critics of global rankings focus on allegations that universities are "forced" to scrupulously collect and provide data, that ranking organizations then "privatize". EngiRank, uses only external (exogenous) data. We are principal in this matter, in line with the mission of the Perspektywy Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organization, with a 27-year tradition.
Fourth.
EngiRank introduced a dynamic citation impact change index (FWCI), a novelty in academic rankings. Instead of considering only the static state of citations in the four-year period immediately preceding ranking publication, we refer to the result in the preceding four-year period, this gives an opportunity to distinguish universities that have made the greatest progress in research.
Fifth.
EngiRank is published in absolute transparency, in the best possible form. Each ranking user can access all indicators and independently check the correctness of calculations. There also exists a procedure for quick correction of errors in case such should be reported after the ranking publication. All results and options for convenient sorting by universities, countries, disciplines, criteria and indicators are available on the EngiRank website www.engirank.eu.
Waldemar Siwiński
Founder, Perspektywy Education Foundation
Head of EngiRank