Data & Insights
Enhance your decision-making processes with advanced data analysis, performance evaluation and benchmarking tools.
Inside Higher Ed (IHE) and Times Higher Education (THE) offer a range of data solutions designed to enable universities and organizations worldwide to navigate challenges successfully and seize opportunities confidently. With these new solutions, you can more effectively:
Monitor reputation | Discover what the world's academics and students think of your institution.
Demonstrate impact | See how your strategy affects your performance on the national and world stage.
Support strategic decisions | Understand your institution’s strengths and weaknesses to maximize your opportunities.
Spot new opportunities | Find potential collaborators and competitors in a constantly changing landscape.
When faced with critical decisions, you can rely on robust data and in-depth insights backed by more than 3.5 million data points and the expertise of THE’s data team, led by Chief Data Officer Duncan Ross, who was recognized with a Highly Commended Award as a Data Leader of the Year in the British Data Awards 2024.
About DataPoints
Since 2004, THE has compiled and published several well-respected rankings based on hundreds of thousands of data points collected from universities, research papers and academics. To make this data accessible to its partners, THE created DataPoints, a resource that offers over 1,000 data fields and 6.1 million global metrics from 7,453 institutions representing 171 countries. Now through IHE’s partnership with THE, we can also give our partners access to this incredible resource.
Accessing the data in meaningful ways
Leaders across higher education need to make critical business decisions, and they are increasingly relying on robust data and insights to support their decision-making. However, simply getting access to more data can quickly become overwhelming and counterproductive. The specialized dashboards and capabilities within DataPoints make this challenging work possible and support the efforts of both expert and novice data analysts.
We offer four subscription options, including several dashboards and features designed exclusively for the higher education sector. With each of the solutions, teams can:
Benchmark against dozens of colleges and universities at any one time
Analyze global, regional and country-level distributions
Download data for further exploration
Perform cross-metric comparisons
Conduct peer group analysis and year-over-year analysis
Explore these dashboards and features below to find the solution that best fits your institutional and departmental needs.
DATASETS & CAPABILITIES
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Utilizing the data collected for THE’s World University Rankings (WUR), this dashboard helps you identify and analyze strengths, weaknesses and areas of opportunity to support your institution's strategic development and ensure its global and national competitiveness. The WUR Dashboard focuses on four key areas:
Teaching
International outlook
Industry engagement
Research excellence
This dashboard automates the most time-consuming tasks and outputs presented in a user-friendly format. It takes the hard work out of data collection and analysis, leaving you more time to focus on strategic success.
Key features of the WUR Dashboard:
Powerful datasets from 2,000+ institutions around the world
Benchmark against dozens of universities at any one time
Global, regional and country-level distributions
Institutional-level data across 31 subject areas
Cross-metric comparison
Quarterly bibliometric analysis
Peer group analysis
Year on Year analysis
Data download capabilities
Access to your WUR ranking result one week before the official release
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The Reputation Dashboard helps leaders in marketing and institutional research understand voter profiles, including demographics, location, discipline and other key characteristics. This allows you to tailor your institution’s strategy more effectively.
Subscribers receive access to:
Over 100,000 survey responses
1 million votes cast
Votes for over 2,500 institutions
31 subject areas
National vs. international analysis
Raw data download
With proprietary data from over 100,000 survey respondents, benefits include:
Understanding the strength of your brand across the globe
Knowing which subjects you’re best known for
Analyzing peer performance
Information to inform marketing resources and spend
Insights into influences on academics’ voting
Visibility of voter profiles
Read a case study to see how one university got results utilizing dashboard »
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The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Impact Dashboard is a vital tool for universities’ sustainability work. It is benchmarked against the United Nations (UN) Sustainability Development Goals. This easy-to-use platform details the performance of 2150+ universities across all 17 SDGs.
Use the data to guide and inform your institution’s sustainability strategy by:
Understanding at a glance how your institution performed globally and domestically
Performing detailed analysis to provide tactical guidance and priorities for improving your ranking
Identifying the opportunities and threats to your institution’s rankings performance
Comparing at a glance your institution’s performance against that of others
Exporting the data to use in your own analysis or analytical tools
Generating a summary report quickly and easily to share with your internal stakeholders
Accessing raw data and the evaluation of policies and other evidence
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Plan for change. THE’s Explore allows you to create hypothetical scenarios by changing your institution's core inputs and running them against the most recent World University Ranking to evaluate the impact on performance. Create scenarios with the option to change data inputs across:
Your entire institution, as well as across 11 subject areas
Institutional data, including staff and student numbers, degrees and income
Reputation votes, both teaching and research
Research output and FWC
Please note that given changing rankings populations and distributions and the changing performances of other universities, THE Explore cannot forecast future performance and is designed to create hypothetical scenarios using the current year’s rankings data.
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DataLabs supports the advancement of world-class higher education systems through collaborative data science. engagements with THE experts and customized solutions. This solution offers:
Country and institutional-level data and analysis
Benchmarking against 4,000+ universities and over 100 countries
Data covering research, teaching, sustainability, reputation, internationalization and more
Analysis of rankings performance and year-on-year trends
Quick analysis via an interactive dashboard
Exporting and integrating the data into your own systems/platforms
Interested in learning about how peers at universities and colleges are already using DataPoints to make better, more informed decisions via data, performance analysis and benchmarking? Download a collection of case studies below to read more.
Be sure to request more information today to learn how these solutions can support your specific work and institutional needs.
Do you need to take things up a notch? IHE and THE Consultancy division support higher education leaders and data analytic teams in solving complex challenges and achieving sustainable growth and strategic impact. It’s one thing to collect data and identify gaps and areas for opportunity. It’s another to analyze it with the goal of providing actionable next steps based on deep sector experience. That’s where our Consultants come in. Talk with our team today to learn more about our bespoke and next-level consulting solutions.
