QS World University Rankings

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What it is: QS World University Rankings is produced by Quacquarelli Symonds, a British company specializing in education. The ranking lists schools from throughout the world, enabling a comparison of U.S. schools to those abroad. It is the only international ranking to have received International Ranking Expert Group (IREG) approval.

Why it Matter to You: Schools are ranked based on an overall score. The components of that score can be broken out by the user to enable an issue specific analysis. Those components include academic reputation; citations per faculty; and employer reputation. For each university listing, the user can view trend lines going back several years that provide insight to school progress.

Considerations:  Data sources from across the world are not necessarily uniform. This can impact the accuracy of the comparison analysis. Also, several of the score components are reputation-based which may or may not crossover to reputation in the United States. You need to research deeper the impact of a foreign-education on your marketability in the U.S.

Created By:  QS World University Rankings

Key Sample Findings

  • For medical programs, Harvard University ranks #1 in the world, followed by University of Oxford (#2) and University of Cambridge (#3).

  • All medical schools in the top 10 are either in the United States or Great Britain with the exception of Karolinska Institutet in Sweden which comes in at #6.

  • For dentistry programs, Karolinska Institutet comes in #1. The top U.S program is the University of Michigan which comes in #5 in the world followed by Harvard University at #7.

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