What does Qs World University Ranking qs mean?

Qs is Quacquarelli Symonds (Chinese name: Quacquarelli Symonds Company).

Quacquarelli Symonds is an international education market consulting company in the UK. QS Company first published this ranking together with The Times Higher Education Supplement, which is the second earliest global university ranking and was first published in 2004. After 2009, QS and Times Higher Education terminated their cooperation.

The QS ranking was launched in cooperation with ELSEVIER, the world's largest academic publishing group, and now covers the comprehensive ranking of world universities and the classification of disciplines; Regional ranking by five different standards.

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British QS Company officially released the 20 19 QS Chinese mainland University Rankings. The first release of QS Chinese mainland University Rankings aims to independently analyze the performance of universities in Chinese mainland, so as to announce the top universities in Chinese mainland 100.

The QS World University Ranking covers more than 1 1000 positions, involving 46 different academic fields and divided into five disciplines: arts and humanities, social sciences and management, natural sciences, engineering and technology, life sciences and medicine. This is by far the largest and most complicated university ranking. Because of the different evaluation criteria and the proportion of each index, even in the same university, the QS regional ranking in the same year is different from the main QS world university ranking.

QS World University Ranking has been recognized by IREG-International Association for Academic Ranking and Excellence, which was established by the "International Expert Group on University Ranking" initiated by the European Higher Education Research Center of UNESCO, the Higher Education Policy Research Institute of Washington, USA, the German Higher Education Development Research Center and the Higher Education Research Institute of Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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