You can participate in the WURI Ranking

There are two ways to collect the innovative programs from the WURI Foundation as follows:

1. Submitting innovative program(s) of your university for WURI Ranking.

(1) Designate a Representative: Between November 1 and December 31, 2024, universities wishing to apply for WURI 2025 should designate a representative and inform the WURI Foundation of their intention to apply through a Google Form. The WURI Foundation will then create a designated folder for the university's application.

(2) Prepare Program Cases: During the same period, universities should prepare cases for their innovative programs using the provided template. They may either develop new cases or revise and update those submitted for WURI 2024.

(3) Upload Program Cases: Once all cases are prepared, the designated representative will gain access to the designated folder. All program files must be submitted in MS Word (*.docx) format, not PDFs.

(4) Revise Cases: Through the designated folder, the representative may ADD, MODIFY, and DELETE cases at any time.

(5) Deadline: The deadline for uploading programs is December 31, 2024, without exception, as the evaluation process will begin immediately on January 1, 2025. 


2. WURI team collects innovative program(s) of university for WURI Ranking.

To ensure a comprehensive representation of outstanding innovative programs across diverse higher education institutions globally, the WURI team will gather these programs on their behalf. The WURI team has established a Case Collection System, which aims to methodically define innovative programs and provide explanations using publicly available data sources. However, this approach, when compared to submitted programs, inherently relies on limited public data, which may often lack the level of detail found in the submitted cases. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to submit as many innovative programs as possible to enhance the quality of evaluation and ensure an accurate representation of your program.
When all the innovative programs are compiled, we will send you them and request you to select the 10 best programs for each of the 16 categories based on the three WURI criteria: Innovativeness, Implementability, and Impact. Further information on the evaluation process will be sent to you in early 2025.  

After all the evaluation results are collected from participating universities for the WURI Ranking 2025, we will have our Judgment and Final check processes to finalize the Top 100 WURI Ranking for 2025 (Please refer to About WURI > Methodology for further information). This year, the final WURI Ranking and the innovative programs will be presented during the 5th Hanseatic League of Universities (HLU) Conference at the Philippines in June 11-13, 2025 (TBD).