2019 Edition

  • Over 83,000 academics and over 43,000 employers’ responses contributed towards the results, making both surveys the largest of their kind in the world.
  • More than 4,700 institutions were considered and 1011 overall ranked, 52 more than in the previous year.
  • Over 13 million papers indexed by the the Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database were analysed.

If you are ranked in QS World University Rankings® 2019, 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 (UK), Chosun Ilbo (South Korea), The People’s Daily (China), Rossiya Segodnya (Russia), 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%

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: