Do not solicit survey responses

The QS Intelligence Unit works very hard to produce impartial, objective and rigorous evaluations of universities worldwide. The majority of stakeholders, even those who may not entirely agree with our approaches increasingly respect the integrity of our efforts. The reputation of our work is central to its continued value to all who place value upon it.

We cannot tolerate institutions overtly soliciting specific responses to our surveys and any institution found doing so may have their survey responses for the given year invalidated. Our policy is documented here.

The above is an an anonymous example of an institution breaching these guidelines. This does not reflect well on the said institution and not only will it result in responses being invalidated, repeated breaches may result in our disclosing the identities of institutions undertaking such action.

Just don't do it.