Student recruitment solutions

With shifting demographics and emerging markets, innovative recruitment strategies are crucial for success. QS can help you diversify your student body and achieve your enrolment goals with our data-led solutions for every stage of the student journey.

What do you want to achieve?

Recruit smarter and more effectively with QS. We can help you with all stages of the student recruitment journey, or just the parts you need support with.

Powered by global expertise, insights and data, QS can help you develop a results-driven strategy, improve brand awareness, and build your prospective student pipeline. Convert more students by scaling up and improving your enquiry, admissions and offer holder management.

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100k

Number of students we support to enrol at partner universities each year

Build your strategy

Understand your reputation in the higher education market and how you compare to your peers. Future-proof your plans, forecast trends and build your student recruitment pipeline.

QS 360

Turn insights into impact. Our all-in-one analytics and advisory solution combines real-time data with expert guidance.

QS 360

QS Consulting

Our consultancy services provide institutions with the direction to harness excellence, cultivate impact and achieve world-class standards

QS Consulting

Student Insights Tracker

Access the preferences and motivations of over 100,000 students with data from the QS International Student Survey – the largest of its kind

Student Insights Tracker

Create brand awareness and generate leads

Leverage our global presence through our events, conferences, digital platforms and university-branded regional representatives. We can also provide a full brand audit to help highlight your strengths and attract the ideal student.

QS Stars

Understand and promote your university’s strengths

QS Stars

QS Advanced Profiles

Host a dedicated institution page on TopUniversities and TopMBA to expand reach

QS Advanced Profiles

Display advertising

Launch geo-targeted advertising on TopUniversities and TopMBA

Display advertising

Email marketing

Attract applicants with bespoke email marketing campaigns

Email marketing

Editorial content marketing

Utilise sponsored content to reach new prospective students

Editorial content marketing

Student recruitment events

Meet high-quality candidates at our recruitment fairs

Student recruitment events

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we are the global market leader for student insights and guidance (Google Trends 2023)

Create brand awareness and generate leads

Leverage our global presence through our events, conferences, digital platforms and university-branded regional representatives. We can also provide a full brand audit to help highlight your strengths and attract the ideal student.

QS Stars

Understand and promote your university’s strengths 

QS Stars

QS Advanced Profiles

Host a dedicated institution page on TopUniversities and TopMBA to expand reach

QS Advanced Profiles

Display advertising

Launch geo-targeted advertising on TopUniversities and TopMBA

Display advertising

Email marketing

Attract applicants with bespoke email marketing campaigns
Email marketing

Editorial content marketing

Utilise sponsored content to reach new prospective students

Editorial content marketing

Student recruitment events

Meet high-quality candidates at our recruitment fairs

Student recruitment events

QS Summits and Conferences

Develop new strategies, learn best practice and improve brand visibility 

QS Summits and Conferences

QS Regional Recruitment Service

Use local expertise to empower international student recruitment

QS Regional Recruitment Service

Convert quality leads and process applications

Nearly two thirds of prospective students expect personal responses to their enquiry within three days (QS International Student Survey 2024). Do you provide the expected level of service? If not, we can help you speed up, scale up and streamline your enquiry management and admissions processing combining human expertise with AI technology to help you convert more of the right students.

Enquiry management services

Deliver personal responses to enquiries faster with help from QS experts

Enquiry management services

QS Admissions

Use QS experts to provide a fast, personal admissions experience

QS Admissions

QS MoveIN: Admissions

Manage student application processes more effectively with dedicated software

QS MoveIN: Admissions

Enrol and engage students

With over 43% prospective students applying to more than five universities (QS International Student Survey 2024) competition is high. An excellent offer holder experience can be the difference maker.

Offer conversion services

Reach out to high-intent offer holders and convert students with our AI-driven service

Offer conversion services

QS Apply

Use QS study abroad counsellors to diversify student cohorts and grow enrolments

QS Apply

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Master your international student journey

Explore your options in more detail with our brochure. Get insights, country spotlights, and a summary of our solutions.

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What do our
partners think?



“The QS model is very simple. It’s an easy turn-key solution which generates enrolment without all the baggage of a universal service agreement, which is often the case with other providers.”

Felix Jelen, Assistant Vice President, Global Engagement, Mercer University

Success stories

“The QS model is very simple. It’s an easy turn-key solution which generates enrolment without all the baggage of a universal service agreement, which is often the case with those bigger players.”

Felix Jelen, Mercer University
Felix Jelen, Mercer University

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Want to speak to a student recruitment expert?

If you want to build a long-term strategic plan or have a unique challenge which you want help resolving, speak to one of our experienced consultants.

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What we do

Explore our pillars of expertise. Discover what you can achieve in partnership with QS.

Student recruitment

We support institutions across the globe at all stages of the student recruitment journey – from initial enquiry to enrolment.

Reputation and performance

We help universities and business schools to understand and enhance their reputation and performance regionally, nationally and globally.

See reputation solutions

Global engagement

We work with institutions across the world to make new, meaningful connections and improve their reach, influence and impact.

See global engagement solutions

Employability

We recognise the critical importance of employability for students and for universities and are leading the sector on employability insights.

See employability solutions

Digital innovation

We help institutions to improve their effectiveness through the ethical and conscious embedding of technology and AI.

See digital maturity and AI solutions

Sustainability

We partner with universities and business schools to deliver ESG-focused practices and achieve institutional goals on sustainability.  

See sustainability solutions