QS World University

QS World University Rankings is academic degree annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli John Addington Symonds (QS). previously noted asTHE-QS World University Rankings, QS had collaborated with Times instruction (THE) magazine to publish its international league tables from 2004 to 2009 before every of them began to announce their own versions. QS selected  this methodology whereas THE adopted a replacement one for its Times instruction World University Rankings. 

QS World University Rankings presently contains the worldwide overall and subject rankings, aboard three freelance regional tables (Asia, geographical region, and BRICS) with utterly totally different methodologies. whereas it's viewed collectively of the foremost wide scan university rankings, criticism of it for giving undue weight to subjective indicators and being industrial in addition exists.

History

The need for a world ranking of universities was highlighted in Dec 2003 in Richard Lambert's review of university-industry collaboration in Britainfor hm Treasury, the finance ministry of the united kingdom. Amongst its recommendations were world university rankings, that Lambert same would facilitate the uk to live the worldwide standing of its universities.

The idea for the rankings was credited in mountain Wildavsky's book, the good Brain Race: but international Universities ar Reshaping the world, to then-editor of Times instruction (THE), John O'Leary. the chosen to partner with educational and careers recommendation company Quacquarelli John Addington Symonds (QS) to provide the data, appointing Martin Ince, erstwhile deputy editor and later a contractor to THE, to manage the project.

Between 2004 and 2009, QS created the rankings in partnership with THE. In 2009, THE announced they'd manufacture their own rankings, the times instruction World University Rankings, in partnership with Thomson Reuters. THE cited a weakness inside the methodology of the initial rankings, still as a perceived favoritism within the existing methodology for science over the humanities, jointly of the key reasons for the choice to separate with QS.

QS maintained the holding within the Rankings and therefore the methodology accustomed compile them and continues to supply the rankings, currently known as the QS World University Rankings. THE created a replacement methodology with Thomson Reuters, printed because the Times instruction World University Rankings in Sep 2010.