Association of Asian Universities: Rankings Game

Zoya Zaitseva Regional Director | QS Intelligence Unit QS – PART OF THE SOLUTION

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1200 Higher Education clients and 94% re-booking rate in 2017 SUPPORTING UNIVERSITY LEADERS TOWARDS PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT

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• Rankings Trackers Analytics • Academic Reputation Dataset • Employer Reputation Dataset

Consulting • Partnership & Mobility Software & • Branding & Conference Solutions Technology • Best practice consulting 4 INTELLIGENCE UNIT GLOBAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ‘17 ▪ Academic performance with 1 ARWU/Shanghai league table 2 Webometrics ▪ Academic performance without league table 3 QS 4 4icu ▪ Broad based league table 5 NTU/HEEACT ▪ “Multidimensional” ranking

6 Leiden ▪ Employability based league 7 URAP table

8 SCImago R R R R R R R ▪ Web presence league table 9 THE 10 Trendence/Emerging R▪ Retroactive 11 RUR R R R E▪ Environmental Focus 12 U-Multirank 13 UI GreenMetric E E E E E e ▪I Innovation Focus 14 CWUR 15 Youth Incorporated 16 nature INDEX 17 RankPro 18 US News 19 Reuters I I i 20 3 Missions Source: Illuminate Consulting Group BY BY BY BY BY REGION SUBJECT CONTEXT MISSION TYPE

48 SPECIFIC BEST STUDENT GRADUATE QS SUBJECTS CITIES EMPLOYABILITY CLASSIFICATIONS REIMAGINE TOP 50 UNDER LATIN AMERICA 5 BROAD AREAS HE SYSTEMS EDUCATION 50

ARAB REGION GLOBAL MBA QS STARS

DISTANCE/ EECA ONLINE MBA

BRICS EMBA

BUSINESS MASTERS

6 7

COMPARING METHODOLOGIES WUR (2004) QS RANKINGS METHODOLOGY ASIA (2009) Latin (2011) ARAB (2014) BRICS (2013) EECA (2014) QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2019 IN NUMBERS

OVER NEARLY NEARLY 4,700 151 13m 67m COUNTRIES COVERED UNIVERSITIES PAPERS CITATIONS IN SURVEY ANALYSIS CONSIDERED

OVER OVER OVER OVER 83,000 42,000 1.4m 1,200 INSTITUTIONS ACADEMIC RESPONSES EMPLOYER RESPONSES SURVEY NOMINATIONS EVALUATED

21 60 1,011 1,000 SPECIALISTS NEW ENTRANTS RANKED PUBLISHED CONSIDERED 8 1,000 85 1,011 21 COUNTRIES COVERED INSTITUTIONS SPECIALISTS UNIVERSITIES (TOP 1000) RANKED EVALUATED

DISTRIBUTION OF INSTITUTIONS BY REGION

6.4%

9.1% 39.9%

QS 18.1% World University Rankings 2019

26.5% ACADEMIC REPUTATION

83,877 1,258,811 151 ACADEMIC ACADEMIC COUNTRIES RESPONDENTS NOMINATIONS FEATURED +12% +38%

NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS NOMINATED BY ACADEMICS There has been an increase of almost 9% in the number of 4,764

2019 institutions nominated by academics globally.

4,378 2018 EMPLOYER REPUTATION

42,862 199,123 142 EMPLOYER EMPLOYER COUNTRIES RESPONDENTS NOMINATIONS FEATURED +6% +38%

The US, and Australia NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS NOMINATED BY EMPLOYERS 38% dominate the Employer Reputation indicator, with particular success in the 4,063 INCREASE IN ACADEMIC & attraction of international nominations. 2019 EMPLOYER NOMINATIONS China, India and are also showing solid results but with stronger 3,494

focus on their national markets. 2018 RECEIVED ACADEMIC NOMINATIONS: DISTRIBUTION BY COUNTRY

1,258,811 ACADEMIC NOMINATIONS FROM 83,877 RESPONDENTS NOMINATING 4,764 International Domestic UNIVERSITIES RECEIVED EMPLOYER NOMINATIONS: DISTRIBUTION BY COUNTRY

199,123 EMPLOYER NOMINATIONS FROM 42,862 RESPONDENTS NOMINATING 4,063

International Domestic UNIVERSITIES 47,199 22.2% AVERAGE CITATIONS YEAR ON YEAR PER INSTITUTION INCREASE

4,964 AVERAGE RECORDS PER INSTITUTION 12.1% YEAR ON YEAR INCREASE WUR University – RUSSIA - 27 2017 2018 Change Lomonosov Moscow State University 95= 90 5 Saint-PetersburgRUSSIA State University IN THE QS WORLD UNIVERSITY 240=RANKINGS235 2019 5 Novosibirsk State University 250= 244= 6 323= 277= 46 Bauman Moscow State Technical University 291 299= -8 Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology State University 355= 312 43 National Research Nuclear University "MEPhI" 373= 329= 44 NRU - Higher School of Economics (HSE) 382= 343= 39 MGIMO University 373= 355= 18 Tomsk Polytechnic University 386= 373= 13 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University 401-410 404 6 Federal University 491-500 412= 88 441-450 439= 11 RUDN University 501-600 446= 154 National University of Science and Technology "MISIS" 501-550 476= 74 National Research Saratov State University 551-600 501-510 50+ ITMO University 601-650 511-520 100+ Southern Federal University (SFEDU) 551-600 531-540 50+ Far Eastern Federal University 601-650 541-550 100+ Altai State University 601-650 New N.I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod 701-750 601-650 100+ Samara National Research University (Samara University) 801-1000 701-750 200+ Siberian Federal University 801-1000 New South 801-1000 New Plekhanov Russian University of Economics 801-1000 801-1000 0 Voronezh State University 801-1000 801-1000 0 Novosibirsk State Technical University 801-1000 801-1000 0 WUR University – - 10 2019 2018 Two new entries from Al-Farabi Kazakh National University 220 236= Kazakhstan this year and rather positive dynamic for L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University 394= 336 the country – out of 10 ranked 3 improved and 3 Kazakh National Technical University after K.I.Satpayev 464= 411-420 stayed within the same group which means not M.O.Auezov South Kazakhstan State University 480 501-550 only they’ve performed better than themselves last Kazakh National Pedagogical University Abai 481= 491-500 year, but also better than world average change. E.A.Buketov Karaganda State University 651-700 651-700

Kazakh National Agrarian University 651-700 Best growth was achieved in Student/Faculty ratio. Kazakh-British Technical University 651-700 651-700 Employer Reputation came second best. Karaganda State Technical University 751-800 Most challenging Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World indicators: Citations per 801-1000 801-1000 Languages Faculty and Academic 15 Reputation. BUT WHICH RANKING IS MORE USEFUL?

❑ Do you know what your 5 strongest subjects are?

Source: QS Student Ranking Survey SUBJECT SENSITIVE WEIGHTINGS

17 18 CRITICAL RANKINGS STATISTICS

WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE ? WORLD UNIVERSITY REGIONAL RANKINGS: RANKINGS EECA

Faculty Staff & International Faculty Staff

Undergraduate & International Undergraduate Students

Graduate / Postgraduate & International Students

Overall Student & International Students

Domestic & International Tuition Fees

FACULTY STAFF WITH PHD 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

ALISON RICHARD Former Vice-Chancellor University of Cambridge WHAT INSTITUTIONS NEED

Global Engagement & Visibility

• Greater insight, understanding and intelligence regarding the national and global rankings of the institution through access to QSIU proprietary data

• Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the different unaggregated reputational and research components and identify the very elements of strengths and weaknesses beyond scores and data

• Mapping and modelling of existing and potential partnerships based on existing and possible university research competencies

• Greater global visibility through an effective PR strategy highlighting specific actions, platforms and directions in line with the institution’s history and competencies Samara can enhance its global presence through a moreInstitutions targeted can and enhance aligned their approach global to presence planning,through partnerships a more targeted and global and aligned engagement approach to planning, partnerships and global engagement USEFUL RESOURCES

22 QS.com USEFUL LINKS

Methodology: • QS World University Rankings: http://www.iu.qs.com/university-rankings/world-university-rankings/ • QS University Rankings by Subject: http://www.iu.qs.com/university-rankings/subject-tables/ • Data sources: http://www.iu.qs.com/university-rankings/links/

Academic Reputation: • Sources: http://www.iu.qs.com/university-rankings/indicator-academic/ • Profile of respondents: http://www.iu.qs.com/academic-survey-responses/

Results: • QS World University Rankings: https://www.topuniversities.com/qs-world-university-rankings • QS University Rankings by Subject: https://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2018 THANK YOU!

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