By Catarina Cunha. The new QS World University Rankings by Subject 2015 released on April 29th on TopUniversities.com, features a record-breaking 36 disciplines making it the largest ever ranking of its kind.
The expert opinion of 85,062 academics and 41,910 employers informed the results, alongside the analysis of 17.3 million research papers and over 100 million citations (Scopus/Elsevier bibliometric database). More...

By John O’Leary. Saudi Arabian universities dominated the leading positions in the first full university ranking for the Arab world, taking three of the top four places. But the exercise as a whole was much more inclusive, with universities from 15 of the 21 countries that were eligible for inclusion appearing in the top 100. More...

By John O’Leary. QS published three regional rankings in a single day earlier this month, bringing additional recognition to almost 400 universities that do not yet appear in the company’s world rankings. 
The new rankings for Asia, Latin America and the Arab world covered 650 universities in total, using slightly different methodologies to the QS World University Rankings to take account of differing regional priorities and to expand the number of universities that could be included. More...

By Tamara Sredojevic. I’m pleased to announce that the third edition of the QS University Rankings: BRICS, which compares the Top 200 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, is now live on TopUniversities.com.
Why a BRICS University Rankings?
The five BRICS countries represent over 2.9  billion people, or approximately 40% of the world population;
One in three students in the world today live in one of the BRICS nations. More...

By Martin Ince. The fifth edition of the QS Asian University Rankings was launched at a packed conference in Beijing on June 10. Held at Peking University, seventh in the ranking and the top university in mainland China, the event was addressed by Li Yansong, vice president of PKU, and attracted over 150 delegates from across China. More...

By Martin Ince. QS’s 2015 University Rankings for Latin America show that the region’s biggest and most populous country is also home to its top universities. Brazil’s University of Sao Paulo has come top in our fifth Latin American ranking, with Unicamp, the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, in second place. Brazil has 17 of Latin America’s top 50 universities, including eight of the top 20.  Of these 17, eight are ranked more highly than last year. More...

By Dasha Karzunina. Partnership between Elsevier, a world-leading provider of information solutions, and QS began in 2007. We are delighted to announce that we have just made a decision to renew our long-term collaboration! QS was the first compiler of global university rankings to use data from Elsevier’s Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed academic literature, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Scopus data is used for almost all of our rankings, starting from QS World University Rankings to our regional rankings, including the new initiatives such as the Arab and the EECA rankings. More...

By Dasha Karzunina. We were celebrating the 10-year anniversary of QS World University Rankings® last September, marking 10 editions of one of the most sought-after rankings in the world. Who’s interested? Academics, university leadership, media organisations, governments – and, of course, students. More...

By Ben Sowter. From a certain perspective, the work we do at a discipline level ought to be easy. After all, we don’t seek data directly from institutions to compile our rankings by subject which removes a major data collection and validation overhead. However, the scale of the output, in our terms is vast. Our main ranking aggregates performance in 6 indicators for just over 800 institutions and thus comprises around 5,000 individual processed data points; by contrast our rankings by subject use up to four indicators in 36 subjects for up to 400 published results. All in all the full analysis involves well over 40,000 processed data points. More...