ITS Research Intelligence

Universities by International Research Collaboration

This deep-intelligence ranking compares the share of recent works involving authors from more than one country.

Ranking table

The table is recalculated after database refreshes. Because citation and affiliation metadata change over time, the ranking is presented as a dated analytical snapshot rather than a permanent claim.

Rank	University	Country	Score	5-year works	5-year citations	Growth
#1	Kainun Institutti	Norway	100.0	129	34	-2.0%
#2	École Nationale d'Administration	Senegal	100.0	107	281	33.3%
#3	New England College of Business	United States	100.0	103	360	0.0%
#4	Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology	United States	100.0	100	212	42.9%
#5	Network of the Universities from the Capitals of Europe	Belgium	99.4	240	166	-37.5%
#6	Azerbaijan Sports Academy	Azerbaijan	99.3	117	0	55.0%
#7	University of Puerto Rico at Carolina	Puerto Rico	99.3	484	963	1.6%
#8	Windsor University School of Medicine	Saint Kitts and Nevis	99.2	380	2,046	25.8%
#9	Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique de Tunisie	Tunisia	98.9	15,388	7,690	-43.8%
#10	Lander Institute	Israel	98.9	673	26,998	0.7%
#11	University of Pedagogical Sciences	Cuba	98.8	484	212	-40.4%
#12	National University College	Puerto Rico	98.8	5,615	93,377	25.5%
#13	Dominion University College	Ghana	98.7	4,881	6,434	79.6%
#14	New Generation University College	Ethiopia	98.7	7,204	53,691	46.8%
#15	American Military Academy	Puerto Rico	98.6	406	743	54.6%
#16	Northcentral Arkansas Education Cooperative	United States	98.5	102	11	3,133.3%
#17	Heidelberg University	United States	98.2	4,883	23,732	37.2%
#18	Universidad La República	Chile	98.0	2,748	2,067	44.8%
#19	Luther University	South Korea	97.8	2,874	9,360	27.8%
#20	Hong Kong Virtual University	China	97.6	301	6,698	68.1%
#21	Institut de Recherche pour le Développement	New Caledonia	97.5	298	1,986	-1.6%
#22	University of Health Science	Cambodia	97.4	9,765	25,501	66.0%
#23	Denmark Technical College	United States	97.4	137	1,137	126.3%
#24	Globe Institute of Technology	United States	97.3	373	93	-52.0%
#25	Cambridge School	Portugal	97.1	2,566	32,909	64.1%
#26	University of Health Sciences Antigua	Antigua and Barbuda	96.9	11,830	35,923	90.3%
#27	Korea University	Japan	96.9	6,925	75,282	108.0%
#28	Yangon University Of Distance Education	Myanmar	96.8	932	1,124	105.4%
#29	Caribbean Research and Management of Biodiversity Foundation	Curacao	96.8	329	2,290	25.7%
#30	HEC Paris in Qatar	Qatar	96.7	206	647	31.9%
#31	University of Health Sciences Vientiane	Laos	96.4	193	1,356	-26.0%
#32	Geneva College	United States	96.4	3,596	48,083	72.4%
#33	ESE Business School	Chile	95.7	518	5,283	4.5%
#34	Schiller International University	France	95.5	1,562	5,012	74.3%
#35	Institute of Natural Science	North Korea	95.4	182	1,195	155.0%
#36	Universidad Católica Redemptoris Mater	Nicaragua	95.4	622	176	-13.2%
#37	Brescia University	United States	95.4	2,367	8,877	53.1%
#38	Instituto Geofísico de la Escuela Politécnica Nacional	Ecuador	95.1	228	1,728	-38.3%
#39	King University	United States	95.0	4,267	33,088	78.5%
#40	University of the Sacred Heart	Japan	94.9	4,138	25,294	108.0%
#41	Sarah Cannon Research Institute	United Kingdom	94.7	633	12,422	38.4%
#42	Lyon College	United States	94.7	3,270	18,165	25.1%
#43	University of Health Sciences	Somalia	94.7	3,252	5,880	-17.9%
#44	Columbia College	Canada	94.4	854	4,101	69.3%
#45	Kamuzu University of Health Sciences	Malawi	94.4	1,805	13,706	119.2%
#46	Atlantic University College	Puerto Rico	94.3	146	1,144	56.5%
#47	American University of Integrative Sciences	Sint Maarten	94.3	141	1,041	-24.2%
#48	Northern Marianas College	Northern Mariana Islands	94.3	103	718	16.7%
#49	Ross University School of Medicine	Barbados	94.1	723	2,856	125.1%
#50	Universidad Nacional Tecnológica	Dominican Republic	94.0	295	228	43.1%
#51	University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College	United States	93.6	440	2,421	73.0%
#52	San Francisco Bay University	United States	93.3	2,784	9,494	264.0%
#53	American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine	Sint Maarten	93.3	625	3,625	51.8%
#54	Universidad Loyola	Bolivia	93.3	1,183	1,982	97.7%
#55	Oslo Nye Høyskole	Norway	93.2	240	4,887	-63.6%
#56	Universidad Metropolitana	Puerto Rico	93.2	1,721	12,278	106.2%
#57	Kwame Nkrumah University	Zambia	93.0	5,281	5,695	9.3%
#58	Károly Róbert University College	Hungary	93.0	366	7,024	-14.0%
#59	American University of Antigua	Antigua and Barbuda	92.9	838	6,855	50.6%
#60	Richmond School and Sixth Form College	United Kingdom	92.9	120	466	55.0%
#61	Avalon University School of Medicine	Curaçao	92.9	424	2,815	21.9%
#62	American University of the Caribbean	Haiti	92.8	190	164	167.6%
#63	King's College - North Carolina	United States	92.8	2,793	19,204	89.9%
#64	École Normale Supérieure	Burundi	92.7	677	1,679	83.2%
#65	RMIT Europe	Spain	92.7	1,549	4,562	76.2%
#66	Bonn-Cologne Graduate School of Physics and Astronomy	Germany	92.7	112	114	725.0%
#67	Instituto Superior de Comunicação e Imagem de Moçambique	Mozambique	92.6	107	270	-23.9%
#68	St. George's University	Grenada	92.5	3,254	16,762	30.9%
#69	Institut Pasteur de Bangui	Central African Republic	92.4	235	3,977	37.4%
#70	Carnegie Mellon University Qatar	Qatar	92.3	303	2,227	88.5%
#71	Aspire Academy	Qatar	92.2	102	1,274	-47.2%
#72	Universidad de las Américas	Nicaragua	92.2	583	1,842	166.9%
#73	Noroff University College	Norway	92.1	528	10,552	-30.7%
#74	Royal Academy of Music	Denmark	92.1	483	7,633	-11.7%
#75	Alan J Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health	South Africa	91.8	192	3,078	-40.0%
#76	University of Veterinary Science	Myanmar	91.7	561	2,197	34.0%
#77	Trinity College	Canada	91.7	3,448	28,954	85.7%
#78	University of Bern	Switzerland	91.6	51,579	588,488	4.1%
#79	ORSI Academy	Belgium	91.5	382	4,298	-32.2%
#80	Central-Asian Institute for Applied Geosciences	Kyrgyzstan	91.4	168	513	61.8%
#81	Mediterranean Institute of Management	Cyprus	91.3	299	3,495	782.1%
#82	Queens University	Bangladesh	91.3	2,158	13,510	58.6%
#83	Dover Technical College	United Kingdom	91.2	253	134	26.7%
#84	Latin American School of Medicine	Cuba	91.2	395	807	26.8%
#85	South University	United States	91.2	2,913	11,691	97.8%
#86	Riga High Tech University	Latvia	91.0	100	302	740.0%
#87	Bermuda College	Bermuda	91.0	131	948	37.8%
#88	National University	Sudan	91.0	1,210	21,769	57.1%
#89	Trafford College	United Kingdom	90.9	116	3,610	-60.3%
#90	Genesee Community College	United States	90.6	212	1,310	38.6%
#91	Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi	United Arab Emirates	90.6	1,780	8,943	108.9%
#92	École Supérieure des Industries du Textile et de l'Habillement	Morocco	90.6	569	1,827	355.8%
#93	Al Azhar University	Qatar	90.5	1,934	4,359	21.8%
#94	Sion College	United Kingdom	90.5	496	2,091	9.1%
#95	Institute for the Humanities and Information Technologies	Russia	90.5	125	57	1,111.1%
#96	Mount Stromlo Observatory	Australia	90.5	314	5,591	43.7%
#97	Moscow State University	Tajikistan	90.4	1,324	2,240	-12.4%
#98	University-National Oceanographic Laboratory System	United States	90.2	126	1,279	23.4%
#99	Gulf University for Science & Technology	Kuwait	90.2	2,881	36,393	440.3%
#100	Dominica State College	Dominica	90.1	226	2,019	-3.4%

Transparent methodology

How ITS Research Score v3 is constructed

One formula applies to every index-ready institution, using the five most recent complete calendar years: 25% research output, 25% citations, 20% h-index and 5% i10-index (log-normalized so the largest universities do not dominate linearly), 15% citation impact (the institution’s percentile on citations per work, reduced below 500 works so small samples cannot win by chance), 5% publication growth and 5% international-collaboration share. When collaboration data is not yet available, the other weights are rescaled.

Data-quality controls: the unfinished current year is never counted, and a year in which recorded output jumps to more than three times the institution’s usual level while being at least 90% open access is treated as a bulk dataset or repository deposit and scored at the usual level. Raw data are kept and every adjustment is logged. Open-access share and topic diversity are published as separate rankings and do not affect the main score. Citation impact is not field-normalized.

These indicators assess research activity only. They do not measure teaching quality, student experience, employability, reputation, finances or accreditation. Missing data are left missing rather than fabricated.