The QS Asia Region Ranking, like the other regional rankings, follows the World University Ranking in the publication cycle. The research data and survey data used for the World University Ranking is used again, in conjunction with the other indicators, to form this ranking.
Indicators
You can see the list of indicators, linking to their fuller descriptions, and the associated weights in the table below .
Academic Reputation | 30% |
Employer Reputation | 20% |
Faculty Student Ratio | 10% |
Citations per Paper | 10% |
International Research Network | 10% |
Papers per Faculty | 5% |
Staff with PhD | 5% |
International Student Ratio | 2.5% |
International Faculty Ratio | 2.5% |
Inbound Exchange Student Ratio | 2.5% |
Outbound Exchange Student Ratio | 2.5% |
Eligibility:
Institutions must be from one of the following locations:
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China (Mainland)
- Hong Kong SAR
- India
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Laos
- Macau SAR
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- Vietnam
Paper threshold
50 or more papers must be documented in our Scopus extract over our 5 year window. This is for any new entrants to the regional ranking, while existing ranked institutions will have until 2024 to achieve this minimum paper count. See Papers for more details.