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 from Eastern, Southern, South-Eastern and Central Asia (as per UN's M49 Standard) are evaluated for the QS Asia Ranking, thus representing the following countries:
- Afghanistan
- Bangladesh
- Brunei
- Cambodia
- China (Mainland)
- Hong Kong SAR
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Japan
- Kazakhstan
- Kyrgyz Republic
- Laos
- Macau SAR
- Malaysia
- Mongolia
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Singapore
- South Korea
- Sri Lanka
- Taiwan
- Tajikistan
- Turkmenistan
- Thailand
- Uzbekistan
- Vietnam
Inclusion Criteria:
These criteria is for any new entrants to the regional rankings.
| 1 | Research Threshold | 50 or more papers must be documented in our Scopus extract over our 5 year window. See Papers for more details. |
| 2 | Reputation Threshold | An institution should be nominated in QS Academic Reputation Survey. |
Exclusion Criteria:
| 1 | Small Size |
If an institution is of small size (fewer than 5,000 students), then we look at the performance in Academic Reputation, Employer Reputation and Citations per Faculty. More specifically, we need at least one of the following scenarios to be met for inclusion in the last few editions:
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Sub-regional rankings
Along with the global QS Asia University Rankings, we publish 4 sub-regional derivative rankings as well:
- QS Asia University Rankings: Eastern Asia
- QS Asia University Rankings: Southern Asia
- QS Asia University Rankings: South-Eastern Asia
- QS Asia University Rankings: Central Asia
An overall rank in the global ranking is transformed into an overall rank in the corresponding sub-regional ranking, using same overall and indicator scores as the global ranking. Indicator ranks in the sub-regional rankings are not available.
