The what, why and how to benchmark

Benchmarking aims to compare the processes and practices of one institution to another institution with lower and higher standing. In nursing, benchmarking is conducted to improve their international reputation and ranking in terms of research outputs, research grants, and publications as well as students’ perceptions of their experiences and employers’ evaluations of the graduates. This editorial will provide readers steps on how to benchmark their institution for improvement or to provide evidence that their institution is on par with other high ranking institutions regionally and internationally.