For the first time, USC is next to the top universities in the world
2021-09-13 09:59:42

The University of Sadat City USC is ranked as one of the best Arab universities according to the international Rankings “The Times Higher Education Arab University Rankings 2021”.

USC was able to compete strongly with well-known universities with a distinguished academic and research reputation to achieve the 91-100 overall ranking between 125 Arab universities only ranked via 16 carefully calibrated performance indicators. The performance indicators are grouped into five areas: Teaching (the learning environment); Research (volume, income and reputation); Citations (research influence); Society (knowledge transfer and impact) and International outlook (staff, students and research).

While USC achieved a distinguished rank in the international outlook the 5^th between Arab Universities ahead of prestigious universities such as Cairo, Mansoura, Alexandria, Minya, Assiut, Helwan, Beni Suef, Ain Shams, Fayoum, Menoufia.

Sadat City University was able to compete strongly with well-established universities with a distinguished academic and research reputation to achieve the 91-100 (Overall Ranking), where only 125 universities were ranked within the Arab region on the basis of the number of citations, international cooperation in scientific research, return from scientific research, and academic reputation. for the university.

As for citations, the university achieved the 21^st place out of 31 at the Egyptian Rankings, also step ahead of prestigious universities with a large number of faculty members: such as Al-Azhar, Helwan, Alexandria, Assiut, MSA, AUC.

As they examine research influence by capturing the average number of times a university’s published work is cited by scholars globally. This year, their bibliometric data supplier Elsevier examined more than 108 million citations to 14.4 million journal articles, article reviews, conference proceedings, books and book chapters published over five years. The data include more than 24,600 academic journals indexed by Elsevier’s Scopus database and all indexed publications between 2016 and 2020.

Regarding scientific research, USC achieved the 27^th place of 31.

Teaching (the learning environment): 33%

• Teaching reputation: 20%
• Academic staff-to-student ratio: 4%
• Doctorates-awarded-to-undergraduate-degrees-awarded ratio: 2.5%
• Doctorates-awarded-to-academic-staff ratio: 5%
• Institutional income per academic staff: 1.5%

Research (volume, income and reputation): 33%

• Research reputation: 25%
• Research income per academic staff: 3%
• Publications per staff: 5%

Citations (research influence): 20%

Society (knowledge transfer and impact): 6%

• Industry income per academic staff: 2%
• Impact Rankings participation: 2%
• Impact Rankings performance: 2%

International outlook (staff, students, research): 8%

• Proportion of international students: 2%
• Proportion of international staff: 2%
• International co-authorship: 2%
• Collaboration within the Arab world: 2%

The ability of a university to attract undergraduates, postgraduates and faculty from all over the planet is key to its success on the world stage. The final metric is similar to the international collaboration measure, but it looks only at universities within countries in the Arab region: Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates and Yemen.