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) Prepare Program Cases: Before the deadline, universities should prepare their innovative program cases using the provided template. One innovative case must be written in one MS/Word template. Any external files are not allowed.  You may create new cases or revise and update those submitted for WURI 2025.

(2) Upload Program Cases:  All program files must be written in MS Word (.docx) format (no PDFs). Combine all program cases into a single ZIP file and upload it through the following Link:
WURI 2026 Google Form.

(3) Revise or Update Cases: If the same university uploads multiple ZIP files, only the latest uploaded file will be used for evaluation.

(4)  Deadline: The deadline for submission is December 5, 2025. After the deadline, Google Form will no longer be accessible.

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 24 categories based on the three WURI criteria: Innovativeness, Implementability, and Impact. Further information on the evaluation process will be sent to you in early 2026.  

After all the evaluation results are collected from participating universities for the WURI Ranking 2026, we will have our Judgment and Final check processes to finalize the Top 100 WURI Ranking for 2026 (Please refer to About WURI > Methodology for further information). This year, the final WURI Ranking and the innovative programs will be presented during the 6th Hanseatic League of Universities (HLU) Conference at the National Chi-Nan University, Taiwan in May 8-10, 2026.