UNM is at the top of its game in cyberspace.
UNM’s web access and presence was ranked 76th out of 12,000 universities worldwide and 62nd out of North America colleges.
UNM Website Administrator Matthew Carter said the quality of a university’s electronic content can factor into a student’s decision to attend UNM.
“The ranking represents UNM has a fair amount of scholarly content and makes it readily available,” he said.
Webometrics Rankings of World Universities, an initiative of Cybermetrics Lab, conducted the analysis of global universities’ web content.
Universities were scaled on four different rankings: size, visibility, rich files and scholar files. UNM received its highest ranking, 57, for scholarly archives.
University Libraries Associate Dean Nancy Dennis said UNM provides online systems that allow students to access an extensive collection of scholarly archives. She said these systems, which include the Rocky Mountain Online Archive and Lobo Vault, are free to students and make UNM stand out on the web.
Among its 16 peer institutions, UNM was ranked eighth by Webometrics. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s web content was No. 1 in the world, followed by Harvard and Stanford.
“We have been working to implement more consistent branding and web-best practices across various UNM websites,” Carter said. “In doing so, we hope to see an increase in both the quality and visibility of our web presence.”
