QS World University Rankings
Our rankings provide authoritative and independent evaluations of institutions, helping to drive institutional performance and guide students in their decision-making.
Our rankings provide authoritative and independent evaluations of institutions, helping to drive institutional performance and guide students in their decision-making.
QS is proud to be a world-leading source of comparative institutional performance assessments for students and university partners around the globe.
Our annual publication of university and business school rankings incorporates our main global and subject rankings, alongside our regional and specialist rankings.
Click on the individual rankings below to access the full rankings results and methodology.
Institutions across the world use QS rankings to benchmark their own performance, understand their strengths and weaknesses and strive for better. Utilising our data-driven insights and solutions, we can help you understand your own performance and develop a strategy that will elevate it further.
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Each of the QS rankings are compiled using a core methodology that employs a range of vital factors including student experience, university partnerships, research activity and faculty qualifications.
All of our data is based on high-quality research and innovative analytic approaches. The QS rankings provide methodical evaluations of key areas in higher education institutions, ultimately offering potential students expert advice that’s proven to align them with their chosen path.
The QS World University Rankings are compiled by our data analysts in partnership with tens of thousands of higher education institutions. They incorporate datapoints from 16.4 million academic papers as well as the views of more than 151,000 academics and 100,000 employers.
Understand your institution’s strengths and weaknesses, and showcase its unique characteristics, using our globally recognised university rating system: QS Stars.
While our rankings help institution’s understand their comparative performance, QS Stars uses a comprehensive framework to rate and showcase an institution’s individual performance in focused areas such as learning environment and environmental impact, as well as other advanced and specialist criteria.
QS Online MBA Rankings 2023 | 29 March 2023 | 10:30 GMT |
QS World University Rankings 2024 | 27 June 2023 | 21:00 BST |
QS Best Student Cities 2024 | 19 July 2023 | 07:00 BST |
QS Executive MBA Rankings 2023 | 14 July 2023 | 11:00 BST |
QS World University Rankings: Latin America and The Caribbean 2024 | 13 September 2023 | 15:20 BST |
QS World University Rankings: Europe 2024 | 20 September 2023 | 11:00 BST |
QS Online MBA Rankings: Americas 2023 | 27th September 2023 | 12:30 BST |
QS World University Rankings: Global MBA 2024 | 25th October 2023 | 11:00 BST |
QS World University Rankings: Master's in Finance/ Management/ Business Analytics/ Marketing/ Supply Chain Management | 25th October 2023 | 11:00 BST |
QS World University Rankings: Arab Region 2024 | 18 October 2023 | 11:00 BST |
QS World University Rankings: Asia 2024 | 8 November 2023 | 10:00 GMT |
QS Online MBA Rankings: Asia Pacific 2023 | 22nd November 2023 | 10:00 GMT |
QS World University Rankings: Sustainability 2024 | 5 December 2023 | 10:00 GMT |
QS International Trade Rankings 2024 | 31 January 2024 | 10:00 GMT |
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