Joining the Network

Membership Benefits

1. Network - Join some of the best universities in the world in an exclusive group that is aimed only at senior reputation managers at leading universities. Our events and publicity draw attention to the members of the group and amplify your world-class status. Network with other senior directors of reputation, internationalization and strategy in the world's best universities to improve your own professional understanding of international reputation management and enhance your individual career.
   See our current members.


2. Primary reputational research - Benefit from our unique primary research into reputation, and the drivers of reputation to enable you to manage your own communications and relationships. The Knowledge Partnership, who support the network, are one of the few international higher education consultancies in the world, consulting specifically for universities on communications, brand, marketing and strategy.
   See this year's research projects.


3. Commission new research - Help determine new research projects each year as a full research member, so that you have access to fresh and informative intelligence to support your institutional decision making for a fraction of the cost of exclusive consultancy. Research projects provide-evidence based understandings of many subjects that impact on reputation and rankings, and also some carefully released findings give high profile media coverage of our activities.
   See our media coverage.


4. Be part of top quality, original research - This year, we are looking at what drives international staff to your institution to find out the factors that affect your reputation among academics.


5. Measure your international media impact - Benchmark your media both qualitatively and quantitively using the World 100's media analysis system, AURORA.


6. Benchmark your website - Take the World 100 WASP test - a peer web review, to assess the excellence of your university's website, compared to 4 chosen competitors. Our web research tool has been tried on over 50 universities and educational agencies and is based on detailed user research.


7. Study tours - Find out about latest trends in other top class universities by visiting them with other reputation directors. Tours take in the campus, and involve small group meetings with senior managers, leaders and directors of communications. And if you can't take the time off, access the reports and photographs on previous study tours to US East Coast universities, Chinese universities, and Hong Kong Universities.


8. International conference - Free ticket for the upcoming World 100 conference in Washington DC. In 2010, 100 delegates from 20 world-class universities joined us at Hong Kong University for our senior level two day event.


9. Amplify your own media and research news on the World 100 Website - Promote your own university on the World 100 website, showcasing your media coverage through direct RSS streams.


10. Access our research archive, news and rankings reports - Gain access to all previous World 100 Research when you become a full research member. Network members have access to executive summaries. Previous research includes: Survey of Directors of Communications and International Relations; Web Survey of all universities in the World 100; HEliX health check survey on staff engagement; and The Rise and Fall survey on the Impact of league tables. Our website also helps you stay up to date with the latest news on rankings and reputation.