About QS

QS Quacquarelli Symonds connects and supports the global higher education sector – students, institutions, governments and industry partners – through data-driven insights, expert guidance, global networks and services that drive better decisions and outcomes.

Our mission

Empowering motivated people around the world to fulfil their potential by fostering international mobility, educational achievement and career development.

QS in numbers

800

staff in 40+ countries

students enrol at partner institutions each year with our help

We are the global market leader for student insights and guidance (Google Trends 2025)

We help you solve your challenges

For more than three decades, we’ve been at the forefront of a complex, interconnected sector. It’s given us a uniquely panoramic perspective that enables us to address your goals and challenges holistically and create strategies and solutions that work across your entire organisation.

Student recruitment

Attracting, engaging and enrolling the right students in an increasingly dynamic and competitive global market.

Student recruitment

Improve performance

Strengthening performance through insight and analysis that inform clear, effective strategic decisions.

Institutional performance

Skills and employability

Aligning education with evolving workforce needs to support long-term economic and societal growth.

Skills and employability

Digital innovation

Embedding digital approaches that are effective, responsible and designed for sustainable transformation.

Digital innovation

"As the higher education sector has grown and evolved, QS has done the same. We share the passion and mission of our university partners to ensure their students fulfil their potential, year after year."

Nunzio Quacquarelli

Founder and President, QS

Our impact

QS has been involved in philanthropic activities since 2005.

Since 2020, we've been supporting QS ImpACT - a global charity recognising a community of young leaders positively impacting their society.

We also co-founded the Future17 SDG Challenge. The multi-institutional interdisciplinary global learning programme enables students to develop skills to tackle the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Discover Future17