Data Sources
Worldwide sources of data on higher education
The QS Intelligence Unit draws on a wide variety of data sources to gather and verify all the information needed to compile university rankings and other evaluations. If there are additional sources worth looking at please let us know.
Argentina
SIU Araucano araucano.siu.edu.ar
National Institute of Statistics and Census of Argentina www.indec.gov.ar
SPU Secretary of University Policy, Ministry of Education www.mcye.gov.ar/spu
Australia
Department of Education, Science & Training www.dest.gov.au
Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) www.deewr.gov.au
Australian Education International www.aei.gov.au
Australia Bureau of Statistics (ABS) www.abs.gov.au
Austria
Datawarehouse Hochschulbereich des Bundesministeriums für Wissenschaft und Forschung http://eportal.bmbwk.gv.at
Bangladesh
Ministry of Education www.moedu.gov.bd
Directorate of Secondary & Higher Education www.dshe.gov.bd
Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics www.bbs.gov.bd
Belgium
Statistics Belgium http://statbel.fgov.be/en/statistics/figures/
Brazil
MEC – Ministry of Education Portal painel.mec.gov.br
Brazilian Institute of Geographic and Statistics (IBGE) www.ibge.gov.br
Canada
Canada’s Higher Education and Career Guide www.canadian-universities.net
Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada www.aucc.ca/search/search.php
Canadian Education Statistics Council www.cesc.ca
The University Presidents’ Council of British Columbia www.tupc.bc.ca
Statistics Canada www.statcan.ca/english/edu/edstat.htm
Conférence des Recteurs et des Principaux des Universités du Québec
www.crepuq.qc.ca
Association of Atlantic Universities www.atlanticuniversities.ca
China
Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China www.moe.edu.cn
National Bureau of Statistics of China www.stats.gov.cn
Colombia
Columbia Ministry of Education www.mineducacion.gov.co
Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadistica (DANE) www.dane.gov.co
Czech Republic
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports www.msmt.cz
Czech Statistical Office www.czso.cz
Denmark
Danish Ministry of Education www.eng.uvm.dk
Statistics Denmark www.statbank.dk
Egypt
Egypt Ministry of Education www.emoe.org
CAPMAS www.capmas.gov.eg
Estonia
Estonian Ministry of Education and Research www.hm.ee
State Statistical Office www.stat.ee
Finland
KOTA – statistical data on universities and fields of education kotaplus.csc.fi
Statistics Finland – Finland in Figures www.stat.fi/tup/suoluk/index_en.html
France
Ministry of Education www.education.gouv.fr
INSEE – National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies www.insee.fr
The French Official Statistics Portal www.statistique-publique.fr
AERES – Agence d’Evaluation pour la Recherche et l’Enseignement Supérieur www.aeres-evaluation.fr
Germany
Federal Ministry of Education and Research www.bmbf.de/en
Federal Statistical Office Germany www.destatis.de
Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung www.statistik.bayern.de
Regionaldatenbank Deutschland – GENESIS Online – Das statistische Informationssystem des Bundes und der Länder www.regionalstatistik.de
Greece
Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs www.ypepth.gr , www.minedu.gov.gr
National Statistical Service of Greece www.statistics.gr
Hong KOng
University Grants Committee www.ugc.edu.hk
Education Bureau www.edb.gov.hk
Census and Statistics Department www.censtatd.gov.hk
Hong Kong SAR Government portal, GovHK www.gov.hk
Hungary
Ministry of Education and Culture www.okm.gov.hu
Hungarian Central Statistical Office portal.ksh.hu
India
Department of Higher Education in India www.education.nic.in
National University of Educational Planning and Administration www.nuepa.org
Government of India, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation www.mospi.nic.in
Indonesia
Ministry of National Education www.kemdiknas.go.id
Statistics Indonesia www.bps.go.id
Iran
Ministry of Education www.medu.ir
Ministry of Science, Research and Technology www.msrt.ir
Statistical Centre of Iran www.sci.org.ir
Ireland
Ireland (IE)
Department of Education and Science www.education.ie
Higher Education Authority www.hea.ie
Central Statistics Office www.cso.ie
Israel
Israel (IL)
Ministry of Education cms.education.gov.il
Central Bureau of Statistics www.cbs.gov.il/engindex.htm
Italy
Ministero dell’Università e della ricerca www.statistica.miur.it
Italian National Institute of Statistics www.istat.it/english
Japan
Statistics Bureau Ministry of Internal Affairs www.stat.go.jp
Ministry of Education www.mext.go.jp
Japan Student Services Organization www.jasso.go.jp
Kazakhstan
Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan www.edu.gov.kz/en
Agency of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Statistics www.eng.stat.kz
Lebanon
Ministry of Education & Higher Education www.higher-edu.gov.lb
Central Administration of Statistics www.cas.gov.lb
Lithuania
Ministry of Education and Science www.smm.lt/en
Department of Statistics of Lithuania www.stat.gov.lt/en
Malaysia
Ministry of Higher Education (Institut Pengajian Tinggi Awam (IPTA)) www.mohe.gov.my
Department of Statistics Malaysia www.statistics.gov.my
Mexico
General Directorate for Higher Education, Secretary of Public Education www.dgesu.ses.sep.gob.mx
INEGI – Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografia e Informatica www.inegi.org.mx
Netherlands
Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands) english.minocw.nl
CBS – Central Bureau of Statistics – Statistics Netherlands www.cbs.nl
New Zealand
Ministry of Education New Zealand www.minedu.govt.nz
Statistics New Zealand www.stats.govt.nz
Norway
Ministry of Education and Research www.regjeringen.no/en/dep/kd.html?id=586
Statistics Norway www.ssb.no/en
Pakistan
Higher Education Commission (HEC) www.hec.gov.pk
Ministry of Education www.moe.gov.pk
Statistics Division – Government of Pakistan www.statpak.gov.pk
Peru
ANR National Assembly of Chancellors www.anr.edu.pe
Ministry of Education www.minedu.gob.pe
National Institute of Statistics and Informatics www.inei.gob.pe
Philippines
Department of Education www.deped.gov.ph
National Statistics Office www.census.gov.ph
Poland
Ministry of Science and Higher Education www.nauka.gov.pl
Central Statistical Office www.stat.gov.pl
Portugal
Ministry of Education www.min-edu.pt
Statistics Portugal www.ine.pt
Romania
Ministry of Education www.edu.ro
National Institute of Statistics www.insse.ro
Russia
Ministry of Education and Science of The Russian Federation eng.mon.gov.ru
The School of Russian and Asian Studies www.sras.org
Federal State Statistics Service www.gks.ru
Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Higher Education www.mohe.gov.sa
Singapore
Ministry of Education Singapore www.moe.gov.sg
Statistics Singapore www.singstat.gov.sg
Slovenia
Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology www.mvzt.gov.si/en
Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia www.stat.si
South Africa
Statistics South Africa www.statssa.gov.za
South Korea
Ministry of Education, Science and Technology english.mest.go.kr
Korea Council for University Education english.kcue.or.kr
Statistics Korea kostat.go.kr/eng
Higher Education in Korea www.academyinfo.go.kr
Spain
Ministry of Education Spain www.mec.es
Instituto Nacional de Estadistica www.ine.es
Sri Lanka
Ministry of Higher Education www.mohe.gov.lk
Department of Census and Statistics www.statistics.gov.lk
Sweden
Swedish National Agency for Higher Education www.hsv.se
Statistics Sweden www.scb.se
Switzerland
CRUS – Rectors’ Conference of the Swiss Universities www.crus.ch
Swiss Federal Statistical Office www.bfs.admin.ch
Taiwan
Ministry of Education – Republic of China (Taiwan) english.moe.gov.tw
Ministry of Education – Department of Statistics www.edu.tw/statistics
Thailand
Commission on Higher Education www.inter.mua.go.th
National Statistical Office of Thailand web.nso.go.th
Turkey
Ministry of National Education www.meb.gov.tr
Turkish Statistical Institute www.turkstat.gov.tr
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates (AE)
Ministry of Education www.moe.gov.ae
United Arab Emirates Ministry of Economic Statistic Reports www.economy.ae
Uruguay
Uruguay (UY)
Ministry of Education and Culture www.mec.gub.uy
Instituto Nacional de Estadística www.ine.gub.uy
United Kingdom
Direct gov www.direct.gov.uk
Higher Education Statistics Agency www.hesa.ac.uk
United States
National Center for Education Statistics www.nces.ed.gov
Common Data Set (CDS) example cds.berkeley.edu
College Navigator http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
Domestic Rankings
National Rankings & Evaluations
Whilst the methodologies of different rankings vary greatly, the QS Intelligence Unit frequently refers to domestic rankings of universities to assess whether certain institutions merit inclusion in the international tables and, in some cases to evaluate the effectiveness of the international methodologies to reflect the domestic understanding of the relative performance of institutions.
Argentina
Australia
International Standing of Australian Universities (Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, Melbourne University)
Brazil
Provao, annual standardized examination ranking university programmens on a five-grade scale from A to E (National Institute for Educational Studies and Research)
Bulgaria
Ministry of Education, Youth, and Science – Bulgarian University Ranking System http://rsvu.mon.bg/RSVU/?locale=en
Canada
Chile
Consjo Nacional de Acreditation (National Accreditation Agency, grants accreditation for different lengths of time from three to seven years)
Ranking de las mejores universidades del país/Ranking universidades El Mercurio (EI Mercurio)
Ranking de universidades Qué Pasa (Que Pasa)
China
Academic Ranking of World Universities (ShanghaiRanking Consultancy)
Academic Reputation Ranking in Taiwan (Education Evaluation Section, Center for Learning and Teaching, Tamkang University)
China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center
Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan)
Rankings by the Research Centre for China Science Evaluation, Wuhan University
Ranking of Universities in Hong Kong (Education 18.com)
The Chinese Universities Alumni Association Ranking
The Guangdong Institute of Management Science Ranking (Guangdong Institute of Management Science)
The NETBIG Ranking (Netbig)
Germany
CHE University Ranking (Center for Higher Education Development, in partnership with Die Zeit)
Ranking of Germany’s National Innovative Capacity-The Innovative Indicator for Germany (German Institute for Economic Research, DIW Berlin)
The best universities in Germany (Karriere)
India
Japan
Netherlands
The Leiden Ranking (Leiden University)
New Zealand
PBRF Rankings of New Zealand Tertiary Education Institutions (Tertiary Education Commission)
Nigeria
Ranking of Nigerian Universities
Pakistan
Ranking of Universities, Pakistan (Pakistan Higher Education Commission)
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Academic Ranking and Rating
Ad-Astra ranking
Ranking of Universities (The National Council of Research in Higher Education)
Slovakia
Academic Ranking and Rating (The Independent Slovak Academic Ranking and Rating Agency)
Spain
Sweden
Ranking of Universities of Colleges (Moderna Tider)
Switzerland
Champions League (The Swiss Federal Government’s Zentrum für Wissenschafts – und Technologiestudien)
Thailand
Ministry of Higher Education Ranking
Tunisia
Comite National d’Evaluation
Ukraine
Compass: Ranking of Ukrainian Universities
UNESCO Chair, Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, to be published by Zerkalo Nedeli (weekly magazine)
United Kingdom
The Good University Guide (The Times, London)
The Guardian University Guide (The Guardian)
United States
America’s Best Colleges (US News and World Report)
NRC Ranking of U.S. Psychology Ph.D. Programs (Social Psychology Network)
The Washington Monthly College Rankings (Washington Monthly)
The Top American Research Universities (The Center for Measuring the Performance of American Universities)
The Princeton Review – 2008 Best 366 Colleges Rankings
US Master’s Degree Rankings (Masters Degree Online)
UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings (The UT Dallas’ School of Management)
International Rankings
International Rankings & Evaluations
The QS Intelligence Unit frequently and routinely benchmarks and runs correlation analysis between its rankings and the results of other international evaluations.
- QS World University Rankings
- QS University Rankings: Asia
- QS University Rankings: Latin America
- QS World University Rankings by Subject
- QS Best Student Cities
- Academic Ranking of World Universities (ShanghaiRanking Consultancy; ARWU)
- Asia’s Best Universities (Asia Week) – discontinued in 2000
- CHE-Excellence Ranking (CHE)
- Global University City Index – discontinued in 2010
- Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan)
- The Financial Times Business School Rankings
- International Professional Ranking of Higher Education Institutions (Mines ParisTech)
- Ranking Web of World Universities (Webometrics)
- University Ranking of Academic Performance
- Scimago Institutions Ranking
- Leiden Ranking
- High Impact Universities (In affiliation with the University of Western Australia) – discontinued in 2011
- Times Higher Education World University Rankings
- U-Multirank (CHERPA alliance supported by European Commission)








