QS World University Rankings 2017 - 2022

Context

QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of global university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds. The QS ranking receives approval from the International Ranking Expert Group (IREG), and is viewed as one of the three most-widely read university rankings in the world. QS publishes its university rankings in partnership with Elsevier.

Content

This dataset contains university data from the year 2017 to 2022. It has a total of 15 features.

• university - name of the university
• year - year of ranking
• rank_display - rank given to the university
• score - score of the university based on the six key metrics mentioned above
• link - link to the university profile page on QS website
• country - country in which the university is located
• city - city in which the university is located
• region - continent in which the university is located
• logo - link to the logo of the university
• type - type of university (public or private)
• research_output - quality of research at the university
• student_faculty_ratio - number of students assigned to per faculty
• international_students - number of international students enrolled at the university
• size - size of the university in terms of area
• faculty_count - number of faculty or academic staff at the university

Acknowledgements

This dataset was acquired by scraping the QS World University Rankings website with Python and Selenium.
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Inspiration

Some of the questions that can be answered with this dataset,

1. What makes a best ranked university?
2. Does the location of a university play a role in its ranking?
3. What do the best universities have in common?
4. How important is academic research for a university?
5. Which country is preferred by international students?