A higher education ranking is a tool that measures the performance of higher education institutions according to a number of criteria and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that measure specific aspects of the operation of higher education institutions.

Scopus is a bibliographic and reference database and a tool for tracking the citations of articles published in scientific publications.  The Scopus database constantly indexes more than 20,000 scientific publications from technical, medical and humanitarian sciences, as well as publications of scientific journals, materials of conferences and book publications.

Founded in 2005, UniRank is a leading international higher education portal and search system providing reviews and rankings of over 13,900 officially recognized universities and colleges in 200 countries.

In Ukraine, the results of the annual academic rating of Ukrainian institutions of higher education "Top-200 Ukraine 2022" were made public.