Why is our data still pending?

by Baerbel Eckelmann

We encourage universities to directly submit data into our online database called QS Core. Once done, the status comes up as ‘pending’ and is indicated by a little clock. All data has to go through a validation process before the status changes to ‘accepted’, indicated by a green ‘tick’. The validation is done by a member of the QS Intelligence Unit. Essentially, we focus on validating crucial statistics, which contribute to the compilation of the overall rank position, first followed by all remaining submitted data.