Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is an UK based company founded by Nunzio Quacquarelli and Matt Symonds. QS ranks and evaluates the reputation of universities using surveys received from researchers and employers, in addition to data submitted by institutions, Scopus-based publication citation frequency and internationalisation of the universities.

QS World University Ranking uses six indicators namely

• Academic Reputation – External academic’ evaluations of a university’s teaching and research (40%)
• Employer Reputation – Employers’ evaluations of graduates from the university (10%)
• Faculty Student Ratio – Numbers of students mentored by a academic (20%)
• Citations Per Faculty – Number of citations in scholarly journals indexed by Scopus (20%)
• International Faculty – Proportion of international academic staffs. (5%)
• International Students – Proportion of international students (5%)

Click here for QS World Ranking Methodology

Universities from the World entering QSWUR 2019 for the first time

1. PSL University, France
2. Sorbonne University, France
3. Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Pakistan.
4. Universiti Teknologi Brunei
5. UCSI, Malaysia

Top 15 universities from South East Asia in QSWUR 2019

1. National University of Singapore
2. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
3. Universiti Malaya
4. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
5. Universiti Putra Malaysia
6. Universiti Sains Malaysia
7. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
8. Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
9. University of Indonesia
10. Universiti Brunei Darussalam
11. Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB)
12. Mahidol University, Thailand
13. University of Philippines
14. Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
15. Universiti Teknologi Brunei

Universities from South East Asia entering QSWUR 2019 for the first time

1. Universiti Teknologi Brunei
2. UCSI, Malaysia
3. Taylor’s University, Malaysia
4. Padjadjaran University, Indonesia
5. UNITEN, Malaysia
6. VNU-HCM, Vietnam
7. MMU, Malaysia
8. VNU-Hanoi, Vietnam