INACTIVE Academic Reputation: What Are Your Institution's Strong Points?

QS' Academic Reputation has over 20 year's experience with collecting data in the higher education industry.

QSIU remain committed to achieving our goal of being the most trusted independent source of global intelligence in the higher education sector.

We have achieved this through the development of a robust methodology that ensures objectivity.

Leverage Our Academic Reputation Dataset and Gain Invaluable Insights

It may also be of interest to you, as to how you can use our dataset to positively impact your reputation.

Access our comprehensive analysis of your institution’s academic performance based on responses from the QS Academic Survey.

The methodology for academic reputation follows mirroring guidelines, seeking to systematically combine data from a mirage of objective sources: Previous Respondents

QS have been collecting survey responses since 2004. To combat the risk of responses becoming outdated, in 2014 all previous respondents were invited to provide an updated viewpoint on the quality of universities in their broad field. 1,724 previous respondents returned to revise their response and give this dataset added reliability.

World Scientific

QS were able to draw over half of World Scientific's subscription database and collected 180,000 active records to put towards their academic reputation dataset.

Mardev-DM2

In 2011, QS chose to redirect and draw on more records from the Mardev lists. In 2014, QS obtained 200,000 records from Mardev's database of academic and library contacts.

Academic Signup

In 2010, QS initiated an Academic Signup process to enable the thousands of interested academics we meet each year to actively signal their interest in participation. Volunteers are screened to ensure institutions are not using the signup process to unduly influence the position of their own or rival institutions.

Over 25,000 academics have signed up since the process was launched in February 2010.

Institution Supplied Lists

In 2014, nearly 400 institutions supplied lists contributing over 190,000 additional academic contacts.

Features of Our Academic Reputation Dataset

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Once collected, the surveys that form our dataset are nurtured to ensure we uphold our desired level of validity. Five Year Aggregation

Where respondents had completed our survey more than once in a five year period, all previous responses are discarded in favor of their latest numbers.

Junk filtering

We run an extensive filtering process to identify and discard identical or speculative responses.

Anomaly Testing

To combat universities attempting to get respondents to answer surveys in a certain way, we run a number of processes to screen any manipulation of results gathered. If evidence is found to suggest any institution has attempted to overtly influence their perceived performance, the results are discarded.

What makes our Academic Reputation a must for your institution?

As previously mentioned, our academic reputation dataset is composed of information that would otherwise be unattainable. With 75,000 academic respondents and the information gathered spanning over 15 years, we provide undeniable value to your institution.

This will set you on your way to identifying your strong points, but our academic reputation goes one step further. We will provide you with competitive industry insight of at least 15 of your institutional peers. This could then be leveraged, with data on your own institution, to improve your QS ranking - let's not forget your academic reputation constitutes 40% of your overall ranking.

With such a high proportion of your institution's QS WUR based on academic reputation, it can be used to put together a developmental roadmap for growth and positioning.

QS' Academic Reputation will continue to adapt and utilize all components that form our methodology to produce the most proficient dataset of its kind in higher education.