Each year more universities are evaluated in the QS World University Rankings® and a greater level of detail on each is collected. QS is committed to developing additional supportive analyses to highlight different points of interest in the results and to recognise the unique strengths of a broader range of institutions.
In order to evaluate the national strength of Higher Education, QS has identified four key indicators which have been combined with equal weighting using standard statistical methods (the same standardisation approach used for the main QS World University Rankings®).