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CONFERENCE
Ben Sowter
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CAREER
DEVELOPMENT
EDUCATIONAL
ACHIEVEMENT
and
INTERNATIONAL
MOBILITY
by fostering
MOTIVATED
PEOPLE
To enable
POTENTIAL
to achieve their
around the
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OUR AUDIENCE
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PROSPECTIVE
STUDENTS
ACADEMICS
PROSPECTIVE
PARTNERS
SCHOLARSHIP
PROVIDERS
CURRENT
STUDENTS
EMPLOYERS
UNIVERSITY
LEADERS
GOVERNMENT
ALUMNI
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INTERNATIONAL STUDENT
GROWTH
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2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Worldwide OECD G20 countries Europe North America OceaniaSource: OECD and UNESCO Institute for Statistics for most data on non-OECD countries.
2.1m
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INCREASING COST INCREASING STUDENT NUMBERS INCREASING INTERNATIONAL STUDENT NUMBERS MORE UNIVERSITIES RECRUITING INFORMATION OVERLOAD! EMPLOYER SKILLS GAP LACK OF INDEPENDENT FILTERING TOOLS GENERIC MARKETING MESSAGESTrust ed . I nde pe nde nt. Global
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WORLD
CLASS
UNIVERSITY
A UNIQUE LENS
QS the only global ranking
authority to consider it
Central to the life goals of
most prospective students
An essential inclusion in
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ACADEMIC
REPUTATION
FACULTY
STUDENT
CITATIONS
PER FACULTY
EMPLOYER
REPUTATION
INT’L
STUDENTS
INT’L
FACULTY
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SURVEY MEASURES
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DRAMATIC
SURVEY
RESPONSE
GROWTH
ACADEMIC
EMPLOYER
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10
20
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12
20
15,050
5,007
33,785
16,744
46,079
25,564
GEOGRAPHIC
BALANCE
EMPHASIS
APPLIED
THROUGH
WEIGHTING
INT’L
RESPONSES
RESPONSES
EXCLUSIVE
TO SUBJECT
SPECIFIC
SUBJECT
RESPONSES
EMPLOYERS
TARGETING
SUBJECT
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62,084
27,957
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THE
(2010)
LEIDEN
(2009)
ARWU
(2003)
WEBO
(2004)
MINES
PARIS
TECH
(2007)
URAP
(2010)
QS
(2004)
SCIMAGO
(2009)
GLOBAL
UNIVERSITIES
RANKING
(2009)
HEEACT/
NTU
(2007)
HIGH
PERFORMANCE
UNIVERSITIES
(2009)
CWUR
(2013)
U-MULTIRANK
(2014)
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C
O
M
P
ARING
ME
THOD
OL
OGIE
S
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ARWU
(2003)QS
(2004)WEBO-METRICS
(2004)TIMES
HIGHER
EDUCATION
(2010)Trust ed . I nde pe nde nt. Global .
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
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ALISON RICHARD
Former Vice-Chancellor
University of Cambridge
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RANKINGS
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“SEXY”
SIMPLE
SIMPLISTIC
DISEASE
CONSUMERIST CONTROVERSIAL
EMOTIVE
BIASED
POWERFUL
DANGEROUS
INEVITABLE
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THE “Halo EffEct” (1920)
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GEORGE E.P. BOX
“Accidental Statistician”
1919-2013
Essentially all models
are wrong, but some
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IN NUMBERS
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OVER
3,000
UNIVERSITIES
CONSIDERED
OVER
15m
DIRECT WEB
VISITORS
OVER
50m
TOTAL WEB
VISITORS
OVER
800
UNIVERSITIES
RANKED
COVERED IN
500+
MAJOR MEDIA
OUTLETS
OVER
70k
SURVEY
RESPONDENTS
USED BY OVER
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NATIONAL
GOVERNMENTS
RUN FOR
10
YEARS IN
2013
OVER
30
ACADEMIC
ADVISORS
LED BY
50+
YEARS RANKING
EXPERIENCE
OVER
100
NEW ENTRIES
IN 2013
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UNESCO BOOK
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IREG APPROVED
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2013-2014: TOP 20
1 MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (MIT) 1 2 HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2 3 UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 3 4 UCL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON) 4 5 IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON 5 6 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 6 7 STANFORD UNIVERSITY 7 8 YALE UNIVERSITY 8 9 UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 9 10= CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (CALTECH) 10 10= PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 11 12 ETH ZURICH (SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY) 12 13 UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 13 14 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 14 15 CORNELL UNIVERSITY 15 16 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 16 17= UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH 17 18= UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO 18 19= ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL) 19 19= KING'S COLLEGE LONDON (KCL) 20
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The list is the origin of
culture…
How does one attempt to
grasp the incomprehensible?
Through lists.
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UMBERTO ECO
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topuniversities.com
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jason@qs.com
ben@qs.com
intelligenceunit@qs.com
facebook.com/
universityrankings
@bensowter
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linkedin.com/in/bensowter
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PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY
ESTABLISHED1746
NOTABLE ALUMNIWOODROW
WILSON
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CALIFORNIA
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
ESTABLISHED1891
NOTABLE ALUMNISHELDON
COOPER
NOTABLE ALUMNIFRANK
BORMAN
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UNIVERSITY OF
CHICAGO
ESTABLISHED1890
NOTABLE ALUMNIELIOT
NESS
NOTABLE ALUMNIINDIANA
JONES
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YALE
UNIVERSITY
ESTABLISHED1701
NOTABLE ALUMNITHE
CLINTONS
NOTABLE ALUMNIMERYL
STREEP
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STANFORD
UNIVERSITY
ESTABLISHED1891
NOTABLE ALUMNISIGOURNEY
WEAVER
NOTABLE ALUMNIJOHN F.
KENNEDY
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UNIVERSITY OF
OXFORD
ESTABLISHED~1096
NOTABLE ALUMNIMR.
BEAN
NOTABLE ALUMNIDAVID
CAMERON
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IMPERIAL
COLLEGE
LONDON
ESTABLISHED1907
NOTABLE ALUMNIH.G.
WELLS
NOTABLE ALUMNIROGER
BANNISTER
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UNIVERSITY
COLLEGE
LONDON
ESTABLISHED1826
NOTABLE ALUMNIH.G.
WELLS
NOTABLE ALUMNIROGER
BANNISTER
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UNIVERSITY OF
CAMBRIDGE
ESTABLISHED1209
NOTABLE ALUMNIBORAT
NOTABLE ALUMNISTEPHEN
HAWKING
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HARVARD
UNIVERSITY
ESTABLISHED1636
NOTABLE ALUMNIMARK
ZUCKERBERG
NOTABLE ALUMNIBARACK
OBAMA
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MASSACHUSETTS
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY
ESTABLISHED1636
NOTABLE ALUMNIBUZZ
ALDRIN
NOTABLE ALUMNIKOFI
ANNAN
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WITHIN RANGE
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1,0001,500 2,000 2,500 3,000 3,500 4,000 4,500 5,000 5,500 2010 2011 2012 2013 A VG. FTE I NT ERNA TI O NA L ST U D ENT STop 100 Top 200 Top 300 Top 400 Top 500
22.8% increase in three years
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10,0005,000 15,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 2011 2012 2013 A VG. P APERS PU B LI SHED -SCO PU STop 100 Top 200 Top 300 Top 400 Top 500
15.4% increase in
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625 675 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013RANKING HISTORY
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