Aims
The Global Engagement lens aims to reflect the overall internationalisation of higher education institutions, measuring an institution’s international outlook in terms of foreign students, staff and its research links outside its own location.
Institutions who score highly in this lens are likely to provide a more culturally diverse experience to students and staff, and be more connected to international networks of academic mobility and research.
The lens is made up of a combination of the following indicators: International Research Network, International Student Diversity, International Faculty Ratio, Webometrics Web Impact, International Student Ratio.
Relevant Rankings
Global Engagement (GE) is a lens used in the following rankings:
Indicators
Inbound and Outbound Exchange Students Ratios
The exchange student ratio indicators show which institutions are both receiving and sending exchange students.
Inbound and Outbound exchange students are defined as:
Inbound: students registered at a foreign university that attend your institution on international exchange programs for at least one semester during the annual reporting period.
Outbound: students registered at your university that attend a foreign university on an international exchange program for at least one semester during the annual reporting period.
The International Faculty Ratio (IFR) indicator looks at the ratio of international faculty staff to overall staff.
Using the overall faculty staff numbers and the number of international faculty staff, we calculate what proportion of the overall faculty is international.
International Research Network
International Research Network (IRN) is a measure of an institution's success in creating and sustaining research partnerships with institutions in other locations.
The indicator measures how diverse and rich an institution's research network is by looking at the number of different countries represented, and whether these relationships are renewed and repeated.
International Student Diversity
The International Student Diversity (ISD) indicator looks at the ratio of international students to overall students as well as the diversity of nationalities that those students are from.
The indicator is an evolution of the International Student Ratio (ISR) indicator, with the aim of measuring not only the size of an institution's international student body, but also how successful the institution is at attracting students from a wide range of different countries and backgrounds.
The International Student Ratio (ISR) indicator looks at the ratio of international students to overall students.
Using the overall undergraduate and postgraduate student numbers and the number of international students, we calculate what proportion of the overall student body is international.
The Webometrics Ranking Web of World Universities looks at the impact of an institution's online footprint.
It is a quantitative study of an institution’s strength at promoting the sharing of scientific and cultural knowledge online.
Methodology
Below you can find the weightings for this lens in each research project. Weightings are reviewed on an annual basis. Click on each project for more detailed information.
| Ranking Project | Indicators | Weighting |
| QS World University Rankings | International Faculty Ratio; International Research Network; International Student Ratio | 15% |
| QS Subject Rankings | International Research Network |
5% Arts & Humanities 10% Engineering & Technology 10% Life Sciences & Medicine 10% Natural Sciences 5% Social Sciences & Management |
| QS Arab Region Rankings | International Research Network; International Faculty Ratio; International Student Ratio; Webometrics Web Impact | 20% |
| QS Asia Region Rankings | International Research Network; International Faculty Ratio; International Student Ratio; Inbound Exchange Student Ratio; Outbound Exchange Student Ratio | 20% |
| QS Europe Region Rankings | International Research Network; International Faculty Ratio; International Student Diversity; Inbound Exchange Student Ratio; Outbound Exchange Student Ratio | 25% |
| QS Latin America and Caribbean Region Rankings | International Research Network; Webometrics Web Impact | 15% |
| QS Business Masters Rankings | International Faculty Ratio; International Student Ratio |
5% |
| QS Global MBA Rankings | International Faculty Ratio; International Student Ratio |
5% |
