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BY SUBJECT
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CAREER DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT
and
INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY
by fostering
MOTIVATED PEOPLE
To enable
POTENTIALto achieve their
around the
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PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS
ACADEMICS
PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS
SCHOLARSHIP
PROVIDERS
CURRENT STUDENTS
EMPLOYERSUNIVERSITY
LEADERS
GOVERNMENT
ALUMNI
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INCREASINGCOST
INCREASINGSTUDENT NUMBERS
INCREASINGINTERNATION
ALSTUDENT NUMBERS
MORE UNIVERSITIES RECRUITING
INFORMATION OVERLOAD!
EMPLOYER SKILLS GAP
LACK OF INDEPENDENT
FILTERING TOOLS
GENERIC MARKETING MESSAGES
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?WORLDCLASS
UNIVERSITYA UNIQUE LENS
QS the only global ranking
authority to consider it
Central to the life goals of most prospective
students
An essential inclusion in every QS assessment
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ACADEMICREPUTATION
40%
FACULTY STUDENT
20%
CITATIONS PER FACULTY
20%
EMPLOYER REPUTATIO
N
10%
INT’L STUDENT
S
5%
INT’L FACULTY
5%
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LEAGUE TABLES
SUBJECTS
CONTEXTS
ASPECTS
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Consensus on a consistent global definition of disciplines is probably
impossible
Accurately identifying the subject students or faculty belong to accurately and consistently is
unrealistic
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ACADEMICREPUTATION
EMPLOYERREPUTATION
CITATIONS PER PAPER
HINDEX
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EnglishLinguisticsPhilosophyLanguages
HistorySociologyEducation
GeographyStatistics
Accounting & FinancePolitics
EconomicsCivil Engineering
PsychologyLaw
CommunicationAgriculture
Environmental SciencesComputer Science
Chemical EngineeringElectrical Engineering
Mechanical EngineeringChemistry
MathematicsPhysicsBiology
Earth SciencesMedicine
Materials SciencePharmacy
Academic
Employer
Citations
H
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PARALLELS ELSEWHERE
IDENTIFIABLE IN SCOPUS
REPRESENTED IN
SURVEYS
EXPERT REVIEW
SPECIALIST INSTITUTION
S CONSIDERED
OVER 300 ACADEMIC
RESPONSES
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Computer Science
Economics
Biology
Law
Mathematics
Chemistry
Civil Engineering
Politics
Chemical Engineering
Environmental Sciences
Linguistics
Geography
Statistics
Philosophy
Materials Science
Academic
Employer
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DRAMATIC SURVEY
RESPONSE GROWTH
ACADEMIC
EMPLOYER
2010
2011
2012
15,050
5,007
33,785
16,744
46,079
25,564
GEOGRAPHIC BALANCE
EMPHASIS APPLIED
THROUGH WEIGHTING
INT’L RESPONSE
S
RESPONSES
EXCLUSIVE TO
SUBJECT
SPECIFIC SUBJECT
RESPONSES
EMPLOYERS
TARGETING SUBJECT
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EDWARD THORNDIKEAmerican Psychologist 1874-1949
A cognitive bias in which specific judgements of an individual’s character are influenced by our overall
impression of them
QS COUNTER MEASURES
WEIGHTING
SPECIFIC vs. GENERAL
ADJUSTMENTS
THOROUGH SCREENING
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68m RECORDS ANALYSED
SCALED IN
PER PAPER VS PER
FACULTY
SPECIALIST WEIGHTING
DRIVES MINIMUM
STANDARD
ELIMINATES OUTLIERS
MEASURE OF OUTPUT AND INFLUENCE
SPECIALIST WEIGHTING
SCORE BASED ON H-
INDEX
NEW FOR
2013
JOURNAL LEVEL
ATTRIBUTION
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PAPERSInstitution must have published at least a certain number of papers in Scopus-indexed journals in a five-year period
SURVEYSInstitution must score at least 10 in the two survey indicators: academic and employer
MANUALInstitution must offer programs in the given discipline (manual check of all leading institutions)
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Med
icine
Compu
ter S
cienc
e
Mat
erials
Scienc
e
Agricu
lture
Envir
onm
enta
l Sc...
Earth
Scie
nces
Mat
hem
atics
Psyc
hology
Stat
istics
Comm
unica
tion
Econ
omics La
w
English
Lingu
istics
Philo
soph
y1E+04
1E+05
1E+06
1E+07
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
180
200
Papers IndexedPaper Threshold
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EVALUATED
2,858
UNIVERSITIES
OVER
94kSURVEY
RESPONSES
OVER
12mPAPER
ATTRIBUTIONS
OVER
68mCITATION
ATTRIBUTIONS
OVER
35kINSTITUTION SUBJECTS
OVER
8,391PROGRAMS VERIFIED
RANKED
1,526INSTITUTION
S
AVERAGE
9SUBJECTS
PER INSTITUTION
PLACED
678INSTITUTIONS IN TOP 200
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10 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 7 MIT
5
3
4
1
UC BERKELEY
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
UNIVERSITY OF
CAMBRIDGE
IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
UC DAVIS
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# Subjects
Institution
27 University of Cambridge
23 University of Oxford University of California, Berkeley
22 Stanford University
21 Harvard University
17 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
13 University of California, Los Angeles
12 National University of Singapore (NUS)
11 ETH Zurich
10 Princeton University Imperial College, London
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Engl ishHistory
Linguistics
Languages
Phi losophy
Computer Science
Chemical Engineering
Civi l Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Agriculture
Biology
Medicine
PharmacyPsychologyChemistry
Earth Sciences
Geography
Environmental Sciences
Materials Science
Mathematics
Physics
Accounting & Finance
Communication
Education
Economics
Law
Pol i tics
SociologyStatistics
90*
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■ NATURAL SCIENCES
■ SOCIAL SCIENCES & MANAGEMENT
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