Update 2017: University of Colombo has ranked #172 in Asia and #751-800 in 2017 QS World Ranking.
QS University of Colombo page https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-colombo
QS Sri Lankan Universities page https://www.topuniversities.com/universities/country/sri-lanka
The QS Asian University Rankings assess the top 300 universities in Asia. Only one Sri Lankan university makes the list: the University of Colombo. It is in the 250 th place of 300 in 2014. In the previous two years it had been at the bottom, in the 251-300 range. None of the other Universities in Sri Lanka are included in this World University Ranking system. Sri Lankan universities are more interested in Webometrics ranking system, however there are other University ranking systems in the world: QS ranking and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) produced by Shanghai Jiaotong University.
QS Ranking page for Sri Lankan Universities
http://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/asian-university-rankings/2014#sorting=rank+region=+country=126+faculty=+stars=false+search=
QS page on University of Colombo
http://www.topuniversities.com/universities/university-colombo/undergrad
QS Ranking system
QS World University Rankings are annual university rankings published by British Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The publisher originally released its rankings in publication with Times Higher Education (THE) from 2004 to 2009 as the THE-QS World University Rankings, but such collaboration was terminated in 2010, with the resumption of publishing by QS using the pre-existing methodology in the aftermath of new cooperation between Times Higher Education and Thomson Reuters releasing Times Higher Education World University Rankings. Today, the QS rankings comprise both world and regional league tables which are independent of and different from each other owing to differences in the criteria and weightings used to generate them.[1] The publication is one of the three most influential and widely observed international university rankings, alongside the Times Higher Education World University Rankingsand the Academic Ranking of World Universities
The THE-QS ranking uses six indicators: academic peer review; employer review; faculty to student ratio; citations per faculty member; proportion of faculty that are international; and proportion of students that are international.
World University Ranking systems
Webometrics Ranking
http://www.webometrics.info/
2014 July Webometrics Ranking of Sri Lankan Universities:
https://studentlanka.com/2014/08/05/world-ranking-of-sri-lanka-universities-2014-july-top-institutes/
THE-QS World University Rankings
http://www.topuniversities.com/
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) produced by Shanghai Jiaotong University
http://www.shanghairanking.com
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