Zoya Zaitseva

Regional Director | QS Intelligence Unit

January 2019

QS World University Rankings:

Indicators & Processes

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT

and

INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY

by fostering

POTENTIALto achieve their

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MOTIVATEDPEOPLE

To enable around the

GLOBAL UNIVERSITY RANKINGS

’03 ’04 ’05 ’06 ’07 ’08 ’09 ’10 ’11 ’12 ’13 ’14 ’15 ’16 ‘17

1 ARWU/Shanghai

2 Webometrics

3 QS

4 4icu

5 NTU/HEEACT

6 Leiden

7 URAP

8 SCImago R R R R R R R

9 THE

10 Trendence/Emerging

11 RUR R R R

12 U-Multirank

13 UI GreenMetric E E E E E e

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

INTELLIGENCE UNIT

▪ Academic performance with league table

▪ Academic performance without league table

▪ Broad based league table

▪ “Multidimensional” ranking

▪ Employability based league table

▪ Web presence league table

▪ Retroactive

▪ Environmental Focus

▪ Innovation Focus

R

E

I

POLICY IMPACT

INTELLIGENCE UNIT

QS MEDIA PARTNERS

QS

3,865

THE

7,817

WEB

31,005

ARWU

42,143

UPDATED 16.04.2018

ALEXA TRAFFIC RANKING

▪ Consistent, simple methodology

▪ Stable results

▪ Discipline independent

▪ Language independent

▪ Low dependence on self-reporting

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ACADEMICREPUTATION

FACULTY STUDENT

EMPLOYER REPUTATION

INT’L STUDENTS

INT’L FACULTY

CITATIONS PER FACULTY

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1,000UNIVERSITIES

DISTRIBUTION OF INSTITUTIONS BY REGION

6.4%

9.1%

39.9%

QSWorld University

Rankings

2019

18.1%

26.5%

85COUNTRIES COVERED

(TOP 1000)

1,011INSTITUTIONS

RANKED

21SPECIALISTS

EVALUATED

ACADEMIC REPUTATION

83,877ACADEMIC

RESPONDENTS

+12%

1,258,811ACADEMIC

NOMINATIONS

+38%

151COUNTRIES

FEATURED

NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS NOMINATED BY ACADEMICS

2018

2019

4,764

4,378

There has been an

increase of almost 9% in

the number of

institutions nominated

by academics

globally.

EMPLOYER REPUTATION

42,862EMPLOYER

RESPONDENTS

+6%

199,123EMPLOYER

NOMINATIONS

+38%

142COUNTRIES

FEATURED

NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS NOMINATED BY EMPLOYERS

2018

2019 4,063

3,494

The US, Europe and Australia

dominate the Employer Reputation

indicator, with particular success in the

attraction of international nominations.

China, India and Russia are also

showing solid results but with stronger

focus on their national markets.

38%INCREASE IN ACADEMIC & EMPLOYER NOMINATIONS

2019 2018

220 236=

394= 336

464= 411-420

480 501-550

481= 491-500

651-700 651-700

651-700

651-700 651-700

751-800

801-1000 801-1000

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Two new entries from

Kazakhstan this year

and rather positive

dynamic for the

country – out of 10

ranked 3 improved and

3 stayed within the

same group which

means not only they’ve

performed better than

themselves last year,

but also better than

world average change.

Best growth was

achieved in

Student/Faculty ratio.

Employer Reputation

came second best.

WUR University – Kazakhstan

Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

L.N. Gumilyov Eurasian National University

Kazakh National Technical University after K.I.Satpayev

M.O.Auezov South Kazakhstan State University

Kazakh National Pedagogical University Abai

E.A.Buketov Karaganda State University

Kazakh National Agrarian University

Kazakh-British Technical University

Karaganda State Technical University

Kazakh Ablai khan University of International Relations and World Languages

BUT WHICH RANKING IS MORE USEFUL?

Do you know what your 5 strongest subjects are?

Source: QS Student Ranking Survey

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ACADEMICREPUTATION

EMPLOYER

REPUTATION

HINDEX

CITATIONS

PER PAPER

INDEPENDENT MEASURES

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SUBJECT SENSITIVE WEIGHTINGS

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AN OPPORTUNITY

FOR UZBEK

UNIVERSITIES?

EMERGING EUROPE & CENTRAL ASIA UNIVERSITY RANKING

322 - Tashkent State

Technical University

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NEW IN 2018 - INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH NETWORK

10%

Using data provided by Scopus, the IRN indicator assesses the degree of international openness in terms of research collaboration for each evaluated institution. The aim is to reward diversity and not volume or productivity

This metric considers those international peer institutions collaborating in three or more papers indexed by Scopus in a five year period (2012-2016).

We use the Margalef index for our calculations looking at the number of locations partner universities are based in and the number of partners.

Tashkent University of Information Technologies

Tashkent State Technical University

Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers (TIIAME)

National University of Uzbekistan

Gulistan State University

Uzbek State World Languages University

Tashkent State University of Uzbek Language and Literature named after Alisher Nava'i

Westminster International University in Tashkent

Samarkand Agricultural Institute

Tashkent Islamic University

Karakalpak State University

Tashkent Medical Academy

Tashkent State University of Economics

Tashkent Institute of Textile and Light Industry

Samarkand State University

UZBEK UNIVERSITIES PROFILES IN QS-HUB

ALISON RICHARDFormer Vice-ChancellorUniversity of Cambridge

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

THANK YOU!

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