HEW Newsletter – Foreword

The rankings season has started in earnest with the publication of the QS World University Rankings, and in this edition of the Higher Education World we examine the results and the impact of our biggest methodological change for a decade. We also survey the results of the rankings by subject area, which are published alongside

HEW Newsletter – Methodological Changes

The twelfth edition of the QS World University Rankings is now online. We pride ourselves on keeping the Rankings methodology as stable as possible, so that the results provide a genuine year-on-year comparison of the world’s top universities. But this year we have made a few improvements, one of them especially important, to our methodology.

HEW Newsletter – Foreword to the September 2015 Edition

Innovation is one of the themes that many of those seeking broader global rankings of universities would like to be able to include. The most comprehensive attempt to capture this slightly elusive quality was published last week by Thomson Reuters. The company used ten metrics to measure universities’ success in innovation, and produced a global

HEW Newsletter – Rankings Results 2015/16: An Overview

Despite the improved methodology described elsewhere in this issue of Higher Education World, the 2015/16 QS World University Ranking agree with last year’s on one thing: the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is the world’s top university. It has near-perfect scores on five of our six measures, and comes 62nd in the world on the other,

How Important is Social Listening in Higher Education?

Every reputable university will have incorporated social media into its marketing strategy, knowing full well the importance of social in spreading its brand message to current and prospective students. But while we’re quite good at talking on social media, how good are we at listening? Finding your target audience on social starts with good social

International Students Driving Growth in US Graduate Programmes

International students are an important part of the growth and success of universities worldwide; they contribute research and resources to graduate programmes that can seriously advance a university’s ranking and reputation. A report published by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) earlier this month revealed that first-time graduate enrolment in the US has grown by