  The impact of Universities on the social, economic and political landscape is
one of the key directions in contemporary educational evaluation. In this
paper, we discuss the new methodological technique that evaluates the impact of
university based on popularity (number of page-views) of their alumni's pages
on Wikipedia. It allows revealing the alumni popularity dynamics and tracking
its state. Preliminary analysis shows that the number of page-views is higher
for the contemporary persons that prove the perspectives of this approach.
Then, universities were ranked based on the methodology and compared to the
famous international university rankings ARWU and QS based only on alumni
scales: for the top 10 universities, there is an intersection of two
universities (Columbia University, Stanford University). The correlation
coefficients between different university rankings are provided in the paper.
Finally, the ranking based on the alumni popularity was compared with the
ranking of universities based on the popularity of their webpages on Wikipedia:
there is a strong connection between these indicators.
