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Social
Sciences Departments and Research Centers
This section provides resources to find social sciences Departments
and Research Centers all over the world. The section includes
a listing of few essential databases of world universities
and social sciences departments, a collection of world universities
rankings provided by academic research centers and by private
agencies, and a selection of social sciences departments and
research centers involved in research activities on human,
social and economic development.
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• Essential resources
• Rankings of
world universities and departments
• Other databases and collections
of resources
• Rankings of world universities
• Selected
social sciences Departments and Research Centers
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Essential
Resources
• Economics Departments,
Institutes
and Research Centers in the World (EDIRC)
The most comprehensive database of economics departments,
institutes and research centers in the world, collected by
Christian Zimmerman of the University of Connectict. The index
is organized by countries and fields and includes about 8.000
items
• Economics
Organizations and Associations
This collection of economics organizations and associations
is part of Resources for Economists (RFE), the web guide for
economists edited by Bill Goffee and sponsored by the American
Economic Association
•
Social Science Departments
The most comprehensive database of academic social science
departments, edited by Sociosite,
a project of the Faculty of Social Science of the University
of Amsterdam
• World Universities
Database of world Universities edited by the University of
Bologna. It includes the most comprehensive collection of
Italian Univeristies on the web
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World Sociology Departments
Database of world sociology departments edited by Socioweb
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Other databases and collections
of resources
• Braintrack University
Index
Braintrack contains Internet-Addresses of Universities, Polytechnics,
Colleges and other higher educational institutions all over
the world. The website is edited by Ionos, a Swiss company
•
College and University Home Pages
A list of colleges and universities, sorted alphabetically
and geographically. The website is edited by Chrisitna De
Mello of the Massachussets Institute of Technology
•
Economics Departments with Ph.D. Programs in American and
Canadian Universities
Edited by the Department of Economics of the University of
Albany and based on the listing in Peterson's Graduate Programs
in the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, 2001
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Italian Universities
A collection of Italian Universities, edited by the Universities
of Bologna
• US Sociology
Departments
A list of United States Sociology Departments, edited by Julian
Dirkies' Sociolog. The website includes also lists of Sociology
Departments with PhD and MA programs
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Rankings
Essential
Resources
• Times Higher World University
Rankings
The Times Higher World University Ranking, is the first to
use peer review to establish a global pecking order. In addition
to a poll of 1,300 academics in 88 countries, the ranking
takes account of staffing levels and research citations. The
ranking is edited by the Times Higher Education Supplement.
• Academic Ranking
of World Universities
The 2004 edition of the world university rankings edited by
the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong
University. The ranking takes account of the quality of education,
the quality of faculty, the research output and the size of
the institutions.
• Ranking of World
Universities in the Web
A collection of university rankings edited by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet). Starting
from the assumption that the Web has become one of the main
sources to obtain information on academic and scientific activities,
these rankings are based on several "webometrics"
indicators: size, visibility, popularity and number of rich
files.
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Other Websites
•
America's Best Colleges
The America's Best Colleges Ranking edited by U.S.News &
World Report. The indicators used to measure academic quality
are peer assessment, retention, faculty resources, student
selectivity, financial resources, graduation rate performance
and alumni giving rate. Access to rankings is limited to subscribers.
• Asia's best Science
and Technology Universities
The ranking of science and technology Schools edited by Asiaweek
is based on indicators of the academic reputation, student
selectivity, faculty resources, financial resources and research
output.
•
Business Week 2003 Full Time MBA Profiles
The 2002 rankings result from the opinions of 219 corporate
recruiters and 11,518 students at 88 B-schools around the
world, and from BusinessWeek's measure of each B-school's
intellectual capital.
• Customized
Graduate Program Rankings
This website, edited by PhD.org, allows the visitor to get
customized rankings of graduate programs based on National
Research Council data.
•
Department and Journal Rankings
This page is edited by the University of Leicester. It contains
the results of a recent study, supported by the European Economics
Association, providing an up-to-date ranking of economic journals
that are used to compute world-wide rankings of academic institutions
in Economics for the period 1994 to 1998.
•
Financial Times MBA Rankings
The MBA international rankings edited by the Financial Times.
It includes rankings of the top full-time MBA programs in
the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Australia.
•
Guardian's University Guide
EducationGuardian.co.uk's interactive guide to universities
and colleges is the most comprehensive source of information
on the UK's academic sector. There are separate rankings for
different teaching and research subjects.
• Le classement des meilleures
universités français
The Webometrics ranking of French universities, edited by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet). The ranking
is based on "webometrics"
indicators like size, visibility, popularity and number of
rich files, which aim to quantify the quality of universities'
web sites.
•
Recent Rankings of Economics Departments
This ranking of economics departments by publications in ten
top journals compares departments in Europe and Israel with
14 prominent departments from the top 40 in the US, together
with the Department of Economics of the University of Toronto.
•
Ranking of British Universities
Top 20 ratings for British Universities returning history,
politics and sociology units of assessment. The ranking is
edited by the Research
Assessment Exercise (RAE). The ranking is in pdf
format is hosted by the University of Exeter.
•
Ranking of German Universities
The university ranking produced by the CHE (Center for Higher
Education Development) and the magazine "stern"
is now availble in an English version - integrated into the
web-based information services offered by the DAAD
(Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst).
•
Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking
World
A Ranking of Graduate Programs in Philosophy in the English-Speaking
World edited by the Philosophical Gourmet Report. This year's
rankings are based on reputational surveys completed by 266
philosophers throughout the English-speaking world.
•
Ranking de Universidades Españolas en el web
The Webometrics ranking of Spanish universities, edited by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet). The ranking
is based on "webometrics"
indicators like size, visibility, popularity and number of
rich files, which aim to quantify the quality of universities'
web sites.
•
Ranking de Universidades Iberoamericanas en el web
The Webometrics ranking of Latin America universities, edited
by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet). The ranking
is based on "webometrics"
indicators like size, visibility, popularity and number of
rich files, which aim to quantify the quality of universities'
web sites.
• Ranking of Arab Universities
The Webometrics ranking of Latin America universities, edited
by Cybermetrics Lab. The ranking
is based on "webometrics"
indicators like size, visibility, popularity and number of
rich files, which aim to quantify the quality of universities'
web sites.
•
SwissUp's University Ranking
This ranking compares the performance of various Universities
and Federal Institutes of Technology in a specific stream,
according to 6 indicators retained by swissUp.
• The 2000
National Doctoral Program Survey
The results of a survey on educational practices in doctoral
programs conducted by the National Association of Graduate-Professional
Students among more than 32.000 PhD students and recent PhDs.
•
The Best 357 College Rankings
A collection of 64 rankings lists, organized into 9 categories,
based on student feedback, edited by The Princeton Review,
a publication aiming to help students, parents, and educators
to deal with the process of admissions to college and graduate
school.
•
The Time Good University Guide
The Times Good University Guide is a guide to UK's universities
for students, parents, business and academia, entirely available
online.
•
The Top 25 Colleges for Latinos
This publication ranks the best 25 US colleges for latinos
on the basis of academic reputation and informations about
freshman retention rates and minority enrollments. It is edited
by The Hispanic Magazine.
•
The Top American Research Universities
TheCenter is a research enterprise focused on the competitive
national context for major research universities. TheCenter's
annual report offers analysis and data useful for understanding
American research university performance.
• Top African Universities
on the web
Collection of links to rankings of australian universities
on the web. It includes the Internetlab ranking based on webometrics
indicators, the Huazhong University's ranking and many others. Available also in French:
Le classement des meilleures universités africainnes.
• Top Australian Univesities
on the web
Collection of links to rankings of australian universities
on the web. It includes the Internetlab ranking based on webometrics
indicators, the Huazhong University's ranking and many others.
• Top Italian Universities
on the web
This ranking is edited by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet), a research
body of the Spanish Research Council. Starting from the assumption
that the Web has become one of the main sources to obtain
information on academic and scientific activities, these rankings
are based on several "webometrics"
indicators: size, visibility, popularity and number of rich
files. Click
here to learn more on ranking methodology.
• Top Latin American
Universities on the web
This ranking is edited by InternetLab (Observatorio de Ciencia y Tecnologia en Internet), a research
body of the Spanish Research Council. Starting from the assumption
that the Web has become one of the main sources to obtain
information on academic and scientific activities, these rankings
are based on several "webometrics"
indicators: size, visibility, popularity and number of rich
files. Click
here to learn more on ranking methodology.
• United
States top Economics Departments
This page provides links to the top US Economics departments
in terms of research output, according to Richard Dusansky
and Clayton J. Vernon, "Rankings of U.S. Economics Departments",
Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol 12 (1), Winter 1998,
pages 157-170
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