Join Apple, Google, edX, Noodle, Wharton and Harvard to Reimagine Education

If you intended to enter the Reimagine Education Awards, the innovative global competition launched last year by QS and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to find the world’s top higher education pedagogical innovation, entries for 2015 have closed. Well over 500 projects from 40 countries have been submitted. The overall winner will

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

Global Salary Trends of Masters Graduates Recruitment

I gave a speech on 15th September 2015 to Graduate Recruiters Network to a group of employers on the latest global salary trends of masters graduates recruitments.  They asked me to summarise key points I said at the meeting. Here it is. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank my amazing QS colleagues especially Benjamin

3 of the Best UK Universities Supporting International Students

According to UKCISA, there were over 435,000 international students studying in the UK between 2013-2014, highlighting just how important international students are on the UK economy. In a previous post we covered how your university could, and should, be supporting international students in order to improve their student experience; in doing so effectively turning your

QS World University Rankings Methodology refinements explained

The methodology used to create the World University Rankings uses six robust measures which encapsulate the principal activities of global higher education. These measures are unchanged for the new 2015/16 Rankings. But as we explain here, the use we make of the data we collect has been improved markedly this year. The first two of