QS World University Rankings
The QS World University Rankings is a global university ranking, the QS Quacquarelli Symonds performs since 2004. The company QS, founded by Wharton School graduates Quacquarelli, is a world in the field of education / study abroad and operates with 150 employees, offices in London, Paris, Singapore, Shanghai, Boston, Washington DC, Johannesburg and Alicante. The ranking list was published until 2009 by the media company TSL Education as a magazine Times Higher Education. Since 2010, the media partner U.S. News & World Report published the list of World 's Best Universities. The published since 1983 by U.S. News & World Report college and university rankings are considered particularly in the U.S. and Canada as the most influential of all rankings.
International Advisory Council
QS World University Rankings has set up an International Advisory Council (High -level Advisory Board ). This commission is staffed by 20 experts from Europe, Asia, Africa, North America and South America. You create reports and recommendations prior to the reliability and trustworthiness of the ranking methods and results.
Ranking
Worldwide, the universities are compared on the basis of eight indicators. Focus of Evaluation in addition to research for example also Publications and Nobel Prizes. Every year, both a university ranking, for more than 700 universities, as well as other rankings each " By Faculty", " By Subject", " By Location" and " Academic Criteria " published.
Result
The USA dominates the list of the QS. In fall 13 of the top 20 universities worldwide. The first German -language university finds himself with the ETH Zurich in 13th place and the first German university, the Technical University of Munich, is found at number 53, the first Austrian university, the University of Vienna placed on 160