The College of the West Indies (The UWI) has made it into the World College Rankings (WUR) printed by Occasions Greater Training for the sixth consecutive yr.
Within the 2025 version introduced final month, The UWI has secured a spot amongst 2,092 of the world’s high increased training establishments. This rating is critical, because it options solely a small quantity from an estimated 32,000 universities worldwide.
This yr marks The UWI’s sixth time collaborating within the World College Rankings—a strategic transfer initiated in 2018 after a long time of constructing the regional college’s excellence in service to the Caribbean. The goal was to boost The UWI’s popularity and improve income from worldwide scholar tasks and analysis grants. Since then, The UWI has constantly secured a place within the prestigious rankings and stays among the many high 5% of universities globally.
Vice-Chancellor of The UWI, Professor Sir Hilary Beckles commented on the College’s efficiency, stating, “The UWI’s constant presence in these rankings displays our long-standing dedication to tutorial excellence and management. As the upper training panorama quickly adjustments, pushed by elevated competitors and decreased funding, universities should innovate to succeed. The UWI recognises these challenges and is taking proactive steps to boost its standing regionally and globally. Whereas we see rankings as a measure of our high quality enhancements, we additionally perceive that positions can fluctuate yearly. On this dynamic surroundings, we stay dedicated to reviewing and adjusting our high quality requirements and processes to fulfill evolving rating standards.”
Professor Justin Robinson, Professional Vice-Chancellor for Educational-Trade Partnerships at The UWI, famous, “We have fun the enhancements in our rating on the “Instructing” efficiency indicator and our sturdy rating on the “Worldwide Outlook” efficiency indicator. In accordance with the Occasions Greater Training’s methodology, worldwide outlook assesses the flexibility of a college to draw undergraduates, postgraduates and school from all around the world. This achievement substantiates a key pillar of The UWI’s strategic targets: ”Entry”. The numerous revamp of Occasions Greater Training’s methodology two years in the past, the place the “Quotation” indicator, which was beforehand our strongest, was changed with a multi-faceted “Analysis High quality” indicator poses a problem for The UWI as a good portion of our analysis is concentrated on Caribbean points. Nonetheless, we’re dedicated to formulating methods to regulate to the brand new standards whereas sustaining regionally related analysis.”
The World College Rankings is Occasions Greater Training’s flagship rating, which evaluates 5 important components of main research-focused universities: educating, analysis, information switch, and worldwide outlook. When The UWI first participated within the World College Rankings in 2018, there have been simply over 1,200 establishments. Virtually 2,100 increased training establishments from 115 international locations and territories certified for the rankings this yr. This improve and a major revamp of Occasions Greater Training’s methodology two years in the past have made the panorama extra aggressive.
To be included within the rankings, increased training establishments should meet three key standards: they need to publish a enough variety of tutorial papers over 5 years (at the moment set at 1,000 papers); they need to supply undergraduate training; and so they should cowl a spread of topics. The UWI is the one college within the Caribbean to fulfill these standards, as no different Caribbean establishment qualifies as a consequence of analysis output requirements.