World ranking of Sri Lanka Universities 2014 January – Top 30

Webometrics (www.webometrics.info) issued recent 2014 World Ranking of Universities. According to 2014 January ranking University of Colombo, Moratuwa, Peradeniya, Ruhuna and Sri Jayewardenepura became the best five Universities in Sri Lanka.

New Version of this Ranking is available – 2014 July

World ranking Top Sri Lankan Universities 2014 July – https://studentlanka.com/2014/08/05/world-ranking-of-sri-lanka-universities-2014-july-top-institutes/

Ranking	World Rank	University	Det.	Presence Rank*	Impact Rank*	Openness Rank*	Excellence Rank*
1	2251	University of Colombo		4044	3387	2701	2106
2	2754	University of Moratuwa		3691	3684	2426	3133
3	2810	University of Peradeniya		4478	5490	3024	1841
4	3902	University of Ruhuna		1393	5920	5801	3714
5	4146	University of Sri Jayewardenepura		666	7648	5577	3548
6	4417	University of Kelaniya		6439	7179	4707	2646
7	6097	Open University of Sri Lanka		3756	8140	2560	5155
8	6716	University of Jaffna		4679	9796	7255	3548
9	10153	Rajarata University		7273	12059	8142	5155
10	10779	Sabaragamuwa University		12321	11065	8527	5155
11	11050	Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology		7892	11168	14241	5155
12	11192	Wayamba University of Sri Lanka		5793	13372	11432	5155
13	11354	General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University		7952	14604	6766	5155
14	11930	Eastern University of Sri Lanka		12802	12328	13363	4491
15	11985	South Eastern University of Sri Lanka		4764	14158	14080	5155
16	12192	National Institute of Education Sri Lanka		18377	7899	16715	5155
17	13184	Institute of Fundamental Studies Sri Lanka		14698	15155	13441	3714
18	13532	Industrial Technology Institute		16772	14509	12733	4128
19	14236	Uva Wellassa University		13789	14340	14418	5155
20	14681	Postgraduate Institute of Agriculture		16723	15592	10155	5155
21	14963	Asia Pacific Institute of Information Technology Sri Lanka		11814	17061	11706	5155
22	14967	Postgraduate Institute of Sciences		18844	14995	11034	5155
23	15001	Informatics Institute of Technology Sri Lanka		13334	16397	12530	5155
24	15146	Sri Lanka Institute of Architects		12929	16526	13074	5155
25	15624	Arthur C Clarke Institute of Modern Technologies		17575	13899	17202	5155
26	16071	University of the Visual & Performing Arts		16996	15513	16161	5155
27	16846	Buddhist and Pali University		16926	16637	16459	5155
28	18202	Sri Lanka Institute of Advanced Technological Education		20707	17438	16417	5155
29	18654	Institute of Engineering Technology		19313	19252	14744	5155
30	19697	Sri Lanka Press Institute		18230	20252	16837	5155

Earlier World rankings:
2013 July
https://studentlanka.com/2013/08/27/top-best-universities-in-sri-lanka-according-to-webometrics-world-ranking-2013-july/

2013 January
https://studentlanka.com/2013/02/07/best-universities-world-ranking-2013/

2012 July Rankings
https://studentlanka.com/2012/07/31/world-ranking-of-sri-lanka-universities-2012-july-%E2%80%93-top-30

How this World Ranking is calculated:
According to webometrics site they calculate World Ranking according to following criteria.

Visibility (50%)

IMPACT. The quality of the contents is evaluated through a “virtual referendum”, counting all the external inlinks that the University webdomain receives from third parties. Those links are recognizing the institutional prestige, the academic performance, the value of the information, and the usefulness of the services as introduced in the webpages according to the criteria of millions of web editors from all over the world.

Activity (50%)

PRESENCE (1/3). The total number of webpages hosted in the main webdomain (including all the subdomains and directories) of the university as indexed by the largest commercial search engine (Google). It counts every webpage, including all the formats recognized individually by Google, both static and dynamic pages and other rich files.

OPENNESS (1/3). The global effort to set up institutional research repositories is explicitly recognized in this indicator that takes into account the number of rich files (pdf, doc, docx, ppt) published in dedicated websites according to the academic search engine Google Scholar. Both the total files Both the total records and those with correctly formed file names are considered (for example, the Adobe Acrobat files should end with the suffix .pdf).

EXCELLENCE (1/3). The academic papers published in high impact international journals are playing a very important role in the ranking of Universities. Using simply the total number of papers can be misleading, so we are restricting the indicator to only those excellent publications, i.e. the university scientific output being part of the 10% most cited papers in their respective scientific fields. Although this is a measure of high quality output of research institutions, the data provider Scimago group supplied non-zero values for more than 5200 universities (period 2003-2010). In future editions it is intended to match the counting periods between Scholar and Scimago sources.

Comments

comments