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Ben Sowter
Head of Division
QS Intelligence Unit
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To ENABLE motivated people around the WORLD achieve their POTENTIAL by fostering international MOBILITY, educational ACHIEVEMENT and career DEVELOPMENT Trusted. Independent. Global. 2
Howard Davies
Director, London School of Economics
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Academic Reputation Employer Reputation Faculty Student International Faculty International Students Citations per Faculty
Alumni Awards Faculty Awards HiCis Nature & Science SCI/SSCI Articles Size
Articles (11 yrs) Articles (1 yr) Citations (11 yrs) Citations (2 yrs) Citations / Yr H-index HiCi Papers Top Journals Subjects
Size Rich Files Scholar Visibility
Teaching Reputation PhDs per academic Undergrads per academic Income per academic PhDs/Bachelors
Citations Public research income Papers per academic Research income Research reputation
International Staff International Students Industry income
Other rankings…
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Global Universities Ranking
Leiden
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High Impact Universities
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1 Harvard Cambridge Harvard Harvard Harvard
2 Berkeley Harvard MIT Stanford Caltech
3 Stanford Yale Stanford Johns Hopkins MIT
4 MIT UCL Berkeley Washington Stanford
5 Cambridge MIT Cornell UCLA Princeton
6 Caltech Oxford Michigan Berkeley Cambridge
7 Princeton Imperial Minnesota MIT Oxford
8 Columbia Chicago Washington Michigan Berkeley
9 Chicago Caltech Wisconsin Toronto Imperial
10 Oxford Princeton UT Austin Oxford Yale
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ARWU Webo QS THE
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ARWU Webo QS THE
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ARWU Webo QS THE
Geography
Non-English
speaking
institutions in
Top 100
Top institution
with main focus
on Arts or
Social Sciences
Number of
countries
represented in
Top 50
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1 University of Cambridge 1
2 Harvard University 2
3 Yale University 3
4 UCL – University College London 4
5 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5
6 University of Oxford 6
7 Imperial College London 7
8 University of Chicago 8
9 California Institute of Technology (Caltech) 9
10 Princeton University 10
11 Columbia University 11
12 University of Pennsylvania 12
13 Stanford University 13
14 Duke University 14
15 University of Michigan 15
16 Cornell University 16
17 Johns Hopkins University 17
18 ETH Zurich 18
19 McGill University 19
20 Australian National University 20
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Arts &
Humanities
Engineering &
Technology
Life Sciences &
Medicine
Natural
Sciences
Social Sciences
& Management
1 Oxford MIT Harvard Cambridge Harvard
2 Cambridge Stanford Cambridge Harvard Oxford
3 Harvard Berkeley Oxford Oxford Cambridge
4 Berkeley Cambridge Stanford MIT LSE
5 Yale Caltech Berkeley Berkeley Berkeley
6 Princeton Imperial Tokyo Stanford Stanford
7 UCLA Tokyo Johns Hopkins Princeton Chicago
8 Stanford ETH Zurich MIT Caltech Yale
9 Chicago Oxford Yale Tokyo Columbia
10 Columbia NUS UCLA ETH Zurich Princeton
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School Selection
VC Bonus Schemes
Government Funding Allocation
Immigration Policy
Admissions Requirements
Partnership Identification
Faculty Performance Evaluation
International Marketing
Leverage for implementation of performance management
Lobbying for additional funding for sector
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Prospective Student
Social networks
Fairs
Email marketing
Print advertising
Campus visits
Brochures
Websites
Agents Blogs
Forums
Parents
Alumni
Branding
Scholarships
Posters & billboards
CRM
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Strengths of rankings
Simple and accessible
Over 50 million people have
viewed QS’ results in 12
months
Provides a basis for
benchmarking performance
across borders
Limitations of rankings
Performance is relative to
others
Limited data available for
rankings globally
Specialist strength often
overlooked
Difficult to capture the
diversity of higher education
institutions
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In response to Berlin Principle #3
Recognize the diversity of institutions and take the different missions and goals of institutions into account. Quality measures for research-oriented institutions, for example, are quite different from those that are appropriate for institutions that provide broad access to underserved communities. Institutions that are being ranked and the experts that inform the ranking process should be consulted often.
A simple contextual reference to other evaluation results, categorising institutions by subject spread size and research level
Users can thus understand their position relative to like institutions
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Size
Very Large >=30,000 Students
Large >=12,000 Students
Medium >= 5,000 Students
Small < 5,000 Students
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Focus
Fully Comprehensive All 5 faculty areas + medical school
Comprehensive All 5 faculty areas
Focused > 2 faculty areas
Specialist <= 2 faculty areas
Research Output
Very High Threshold relative to size and focus
High Threshold relative to size and focus
Moderate Threshold relative to size and focus
Limited or None Threshold relative to size and focus
Shining a light on excellence
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UCT could be 107 this year and make significant
improvements such as recruiting more post-doctoral scholars and
leading international scientists, increasing further its research
articles and so on.
But if the university at position 110 has improved slightly
more than UCT, the UCT will drop- though this will not reflect any
deterioration.
A better system would be to have categories – such as
five-star, four star ratings with no limit on how many universities
may qualify for five star rating if they meet the top-notch criteria.
“Do university rankings matter” Dr Max Price, Vice Chancellor, University of Cape Town
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A new university evaluation system.
Evaluates institutions using a ratings method
Once evaluated, universities are awarded with Stars, based their score in the evaluation.
Can include ALL universities—including those not in the rankings or low ranked
Benefits institutions looking to increase international presence.
Ratings are not dependent on the performance of other institutions
Performance measured against preset thresholds
The evaluation of each participating institution can be more thorough
Ratings can be more adaptive
Highlights the institutions specialties “Shining a light on Excellence”
Ratings can include components not included in rankings
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QS Stars
1000
Core Criteria
550
Research Quality – 150 – 4 indicators
Graduate Employability – 150 – 3 indicators
Teaching Quality – 150 – 3 indicators
Infrastructure – 100 – 6 indicators
Advanced Criteria
250
Internationalisation – 150 – 5 indicators
Innovation & Knowledge Transfer – 50 3 indicators
Third Mission – 50 – 2 indicators
Specialist Criteria
200 Rank in Specialist Subject – 200 – 2 indicators
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World’s largest survey of international academics
Increasingly sophisticated international institutional benchmarking
Custom international institutional research assignments
Increasing opportunities to work with international government
Increasingly in depth international institutional profiles
International training and support visits
International workshops, seminars and webinars
International recruitment targeting for employers
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Results: www.topuniversities.com
Blog: iu.qs.com
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]
Twitter: @bensowter, @worlduniranking
Facebook: www.facebook.com/universityrankings
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