Di bulan Januari 2017, 4icu.org kembali merilis daftar pemeringkatan Universitas di dunia berdasarkan popularitasnya di internet. Popularitas lembaga pendidikan tinggi tersebut diukur menggunakan parameter yang dikeluarkan oleh Moz Domain Authority, Alexa Global Rank, SimilarWeb Global Rank, Majestic Referring Domains, dan Majestic Trust Flow. Organisasi telah melakukan pemeringkatan 12.358 universitas di dunia dari 200 negara (data per Januari 2017). Berikut adalah kutipan dari 4icu.org tentang metode yang digunakan untuk menentukan pemeringkatan:
The current uniRank University Ranking™ is based upon an algorithm including 5 unbiased and independent web metrics extracted from 4 different web intelligence sources:
- Moz Domain Authority
- Alexa Global Rank
- SimilarWeb Global Rank
- Majestic Referring Domains
- Majestic Trust Flow
Since the public availability of Google PageRank has been discontinued in April 2016, the Moz Domain Authority has been introduced in July 2016 as the most similar web metric to replace it.
The SimilarWeb Global Rank has been introduced in January 2017 to veriy, complement and enhance the data offered by the Alexa Global Rank.
In January 2017 we have also reversed from the Majestic total count of referring subnets to the Majestic number of referring domains which satisfy a minimum requirement of Trust Flow. This newly introduced filtering process of the Majestic referring domains based on their Trust Flow provides a better understanding of the number of quality referring domains each University root domain has; it also overcomes situations where the number of referring links and referring domains are artificially inflated and manipulated through unnatural or paid links schemes, which are strongly discouraged and a violation of our and Google’s guidelines.sumber: www.4icu[dot]org/about/index.htm#ranking
Berikut daftar peringkat 20 besar universitas di Indonesia edisi Januari 2017:
Rank | University | Location |
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1 | Universitas Indonesia | Depok |
2 | Universitas Gadjah Mada | Yogyakarta |
3 | Institut Teknologi Bandung | Bandung |
4 | Universitas Diponegoro | Semarang |
5 | Institut Pertanian Bogor | Bogor |
6 | Universitas Sebelas Maret | Surakarta |
7 | Universitas Brawijaya | Malang |
8 | Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta | Yogyakarta |
9 | Universitas Padjadjaran | Bandung |
10 | Universitas Airlangga | Surabaya |
11 | Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia | Bandung |
12 | Universitas Sumatera Utara | Medan |
13 | Universitas Mercu Buana | Jakarta |
14 | Universitas Telkom | Bandung |
15 | Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember | Surabaya |
16 | Universitas Gunadarma | Depok |
17 | Universitas Bina Nusantara | Jakarta |
18 | Universitas Negeri Semarang | Semarang |
19 | Universitas Hasanuddin | Makassar |
20 | Universitas Negeri Malang | Malang |