NURE positions in the QS University Rankings EECA (QS University Rankings EECA tab)
QS World University Rankings is considered one of the most influential global rankings of universities. Developed in 2004 by Quacquarelli Symonds in conjunction with the British edition of Times Higher Education. Until 2010, it was known as The World University Rankings. Since 2010, the single rating has been split into two:
- Times Higher Education publishes a ranking of the world’s top universities, The World Reputation Rankings, in conjunction with Thomson Reuters;
- Quacquarelli Symonds continues to issue a rating called QS World University Rankings.
The rating is rated by the universities according to the following indicators:
- reputation in the academic environment (40%),
- citation of scientific publications of university representatives (20%),
- ratio of teachers and students (20%),
- employers’ attitude towards graduates (10%),
- relative number of foreign teachers and students (5% each).
These indicators cover the key strategic missions of universities of global importance, for which they are responsible to the participants of the process: the academic community, employers, students and their parents. More than 2,500 higher education institutions around the world are evaluated annually. According to its results, the ranking of the top 500 universities in the world, as well as the rankings of universities by individual disciplines.
QS Global Academic Survey includes professors and university leaders with an average 19.6 years of experience in science. Leading scientists and rectors of more than 500 universities are among them. A respondent may name up to 30 universities without naming the university in which he or she serves. The survey is conducted in five subject areas: natural sciences, social sciences, humanities and arts, life sciences, engineering sciences and technologies. Several thousand companies from more than 90 countries take part in the QS Global Employer Survey.
The level of university achievement is evaluated based on the results of a combination of statistical analysis of educational institutions, audited data (including citation index information from the Scopus database of the world’s largest bibliographic database of scientific publications), as well as data from a global expert survey of representatives of the international academic society and employers who express their thoughts about universities.
The criteria for ranking are given in the figure.
Individual places are occupied by 7 Ukrainian universities, 13 universities took places in groups.
NURE for the first time this year participated in QS EECA rating and took place in the group 251-300.
Indicators for different criteria are shown in the figure below:
Rating of Ukrainian Universities in QS_EECA_2019
Rating of Ukrainian Universities QS_EECA_2020
The QS Graduate Employability Rankings is arguably the most extensive attempt to make a global comparison of the employability outcomes achieved by higher education institutions. This exercise, the newest in the QS rankings portfolio, and, perhaps, the most innovative, presents a series of challenges. The most obvious of these challenges is that “employability” is a notoriously difficult concept to assess on a global scale. It is an innovative exercise designed to provide the world’s students with a unique tool by which they can compare university performance in terms of graduate employability outcomes and prospects.
The Alumni Outcomes indicator now carries a weighting of 25%, while the Employer-Student Connections ratio has a reduced weight of 10%. Additionally, the Employer Reputation index reflects the changes recently introduced in the 2018 QS World University Rankings, with the domestic component of the indicator receiving increased weight.
As expected, the extended coverage and the methodological refinements have had an impact on the results, introducing greater volatility into the rankings table compared to previous editions. We fully expect this volatility to be confined to this instalment.
Each institution’s score is comprised of five carefully-chosen indicators. Employer Reputation excepted, all metrics used are, currently, unique to the QS Graduate Employability Rankings.