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To enable MOTIVATED PEOPLE around the to achieve their POTENTIAL by fostering INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT and CAREER DEVELOPMENT
OUR AUDIENCE ACADEMICS PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS PROSPECTIVE STUDENTS ALUMNI GOVERNMENT 5 SCHOLARSHIP PROVIDERS CURRENT STUDENTS EMPLOYERS UNIVERSITY LEADERS
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT GROWTH Worldwide OECD 4.3m G20 countries Europe North America Oceania 2.1m 6 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Source: OECD and UNESCO Institute for Statistics for most data on non-oecd countries.
STUDENT CHALLENGES INCREASING COST INCREASING STUDENT NUMBERS INCREASING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT NUMBERS MORE UNIVERSITIES RECRUITING GENERIC MARKETING MESSAGES EMPLOYER SKILLS GAP INFORMATION OVERLOAD! 7 LACK OF INDEPENDENT FILTERING TOOLS
OUR APPROACH 8 WORLD CLASS UNIVERSITY A UNIQUE LENS QS the only global ranking authority to consider it Central to the life goals of most prospective students An essential inclusion in every QS assessment
ACADEMIC REPUTATION EMPLOYER REPUTATION FACULTY STUDENT CITATIONS PER FACULTY INT L FACULTY INT L STUDENTS
SURVEY MEASURES DRAMATIC SURVEY RESPONSE GROWTH ACADEMIC EMPLOYER 20 15,050 20 33,785 10 11 12 20 46,079 5,007 16,744 25,564 20 13 62,084 27,957 GEOGRAPHIC BALANCE EMPHASIS 10 APPLIED THROUGH WEIGHTING INT L RESPONSES RESPONSES EXCLUSIVE TO SUBJECT SPECIFIC SUBJECT RESPONSES EMPLOYERS TARGETING SUBJECT
QS (2004) THE (2010) LEIDEN (2009) GLOBAL UNIVERSITIES RANKING (2009) ARWU (2003) MINES PARIS TECH (2007) U- MULTIRANK (2014) SCIMAGO (2009) HEEACT/ NTU (2007) 11 WEBO (2004) URAP (2010) CWUR (2013) HIGH PERFORMANCE UNIVERSITIES (2009)
COMPARING METHODOLOGIES ARWU (2003) QS (2004) WEBO- METRICS (2004) TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION (2010) 12
Rankings have many faults and do not adequately describe universities and cannot show whether one institution is better than another but I am very happy when Cambridge is rated as the top university in the world 13 ALISON RICHARD Former Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge
RANKINGS DANGEROUS INEVITABLE SIMPLE POWERFUL SEXY USEFUL SIMPLISTIC BIASED 14 DISEASE CONSUMERIST CONTROVERSIAL EMOTIVE
Essentially all models THE Halo EffEct (1920) are wrong, but some are useful 15 GEORGE E.P. BOX Accidental Statistician 1919-2013
IN NUMBERS OVER OVER OVER OVER 3,000 UNIVERSITIES CONSIDERED 15m DIRECT WEB VISITORS 50m TOTAL WEB VISITORS 800 UNIVERSITIES RANKED COVERED IN OVER USED BY OVER RUN FOR 500+ MAJOR MEDIA OUTLETS 70k SURVEY RESPONDENTS 9 NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS 10 YEARS IN 2013 OVER LED BY OVER 16 30 ACADEMIC ADVISORS 50+ YEARS RANKING EXPERIENCE 100 NEW ENTRIES IN 2013
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2013-2014: TOP 20 1 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) 1 2 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2 3 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 3 4 UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) 4 5 IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 5 6 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 6 7 STANFORD UNIVERSITY 7 8 YALE UNIVERSITY 8 9 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 9 10= CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (CALTECH) 10 10= PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 11 12 ETH ZURICH (SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) 12 13 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 13 14 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 14 15 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 15 16 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 16 17= UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 17 18= UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 18 19= ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) 19 19= KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (KCL) 20
The list is the origin of culture How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists. 22 UMBERTO ECO Essayist, Philosopher & Novelist
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AVG SHIFT IN POSITION Trusted. Independent. Global. AVG SHIFT IN POSITION WITHIN RANGE 25 2010 2011 2012 2013 20 15 7.5 10 5 46 0 50 100 200 300 400 500 RANKED WITHIN
AVG. FTE INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS Trusted. Independent. Global. RUNNING TO STAND STILL? 5,500 Top 100 Top 200 Top 300 Top 400 Top 500 5,000 4,500 4,000 22.8% increase in three years 3,500 3,000 2,500 2,000 47 1,500 1,000 2010 2011 2012 2013
AVG. PAPERS PUBLISHED - SCOPUS Trusted. Independent. Global. RUNNING TO STAND STILL? 30,000 Top 100 Top 200 Top 300 Top 400 Top 500 25,000 20,000 15.4% increase in two years 15,000 10,000 48 5,000 2011 2012 2013
ASIA S LEADERS 15 17 19 21 Tokyo NUS HKU RANKING HISTORY 625 23 25 27 29 31 49 33 675 35 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
FAST CLIMBERS 15 65 SKKU PUC Chile Groningen RANKING HISTORY 115 625 165 215 265 315 50 365 675 415 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013