This year marks the 20th year of the release of QS list. In order to adapt to the changes in the global higher education pattern, QS has improved the ranking method to the greatest extent in history this year-for the first time, it has included employability and sustainable development indicators into the ranking system, becoming the only ranking in the world that includes both these indicators!

QS World University Rankings and Times Higher Education World University Rankings, U.S.News World University Rankings and academic ranking of world universities of Soft Science are recognized as the four authoritative world university rankings.

This year, for the first time, QS World University Rankings included employability and sustainable development indicators into the ranking system. Presumably this is one of the most anticipated lists for prospective international students this year! Let's watch it together

0 12024QS ranking index reform

This year, QS made some changes to the original six indicators and added three new indicators. Simply put, it is derived from this:

The original six standards:

Academic reputation: 40%; Employer's reputation: accounting for10%; Citation rate per teacher: 20%.

Proportion of faculty and students: 20%; Proportion of international teachers: 5%; Proportion of international students: 5%

Became like this:

There are 9 existing standards: academic reputation: 30% (down10%); Employer's reputation: 15% (up by 5%); Number of teachers' papers cited: 20% (unchanged); Teacher-student ratio: 10% (down 10%)

Proportion of international teachers: 5% (unchanged); Proportion of international students: 5% (unchanged); International research network: 5% (new); Employment achievement: 5% (new); Sustainability: 5% (new)

It can be seen that compared with 2023, this year's scoring standard:

It reduces the weight of academic reputation and teacher-student ratio, and improves the weight of employer reputation; The proportion of international teachers and international students remains unchanged; Three new indicators: international research network, employment achievement and sustainability, all with a weight of 5%.

It can be said that the application of this new scoring standard has a great influence on the whole ranking!

Knowledge expansion:

The ranking covers 1500 universities from 104 higher education system. The ranking is based on the analysis of more than1750,000 academic papers and professional opinions of more than 240,000 scholars and employers.

In this year's ranking, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) ranked first for 12 years in a row, while Cambridge University still ranked second in the world, and Oxford University rose one place from last year, ranking third in the world. Peking University is the only university in China (Mainland China) that ranks among the top 20 universities in the world, ranking 17.