2016

  • Over 70,000 academics and over 35,000 employers’ responses contributed towards the results, making both surveys the largest of their kind in the world.
  • More than 4,300 institutions were considered and 916 overall ranked, 25 more than in the previous year.
  • Over 1.2 million papers indexed by the the Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database were analysed, 76.1 million citations counted which amounted to  58.6m citations once self-citations were excluded

If you are ranked in the 2016 QS World University Rankings, please visit this page for your marketing materials.

Distribution

The QS World University Rankings® results can be found on www.topuniversities.com.

This ranking also receives significant coverage in many national and international newspapers and media channels including the Guardian, BBC News, the Sunday Times, Chosun Ilbo, Al Jazeera, sina.com and The Times of India.

Indicators

Academic Reputation from Global Survey 40%
Faculty Student Ratio 20%
Citations per Faculty from Scopus 20%
Employer Reputation from Global Survey 10%
Proportion of International Students 5%
Proportion of International Faculty 5%

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Other QS World University Rankings

The QS World University Rankings results also feed into the following rankings. To know more about each ranking’s methodology, click on the logos below: