On January 29, 2020, the Introduction to QS Rankings webinar, organized by the head of the Quality Management System department Olga Klimentyevna Pak, was held at the Karaganda State Industrial University.

As you know, the ranking of the best higher education institutions depends directly on the main indicators and achievements of the university in the field of science, education and competitiveness, which is calculated according to the methodology of the British consulting company Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) – which is one of the most influential global ratings of the best universities of world significance.

QS World University Rankings was developed in 2004 by Quacquarelli Symonds in conjunction with the British edition of Times Higher Education (THE).

This rating evaluates universities in the following key areas: activity and quality of research activities, employers’ opinions and career potential, teaching and internationalization. These indicators cover the key strategic missions of universities of world significance for which they are responsible to the participants in the process: the academic community, employers, students and their parents. Annually, the study evaluates over 2.5 thousand higher education institutions around the world. Based on its results, a ranking of the 500 best universities in the world is compiled, as well as university ratings in individual disciplines.

The level of university achievement is assessed on the basis of a combination of statistical analysis of the activities of educational institutions, audited data (including information on the citation index from the Scopus database, the world’s largest bibliometric database of scientific publications), as well as data from a global expert survey of representatives of the international academic community and employers, who express their opinions about universities. The following are quantitative and qualitative indicators by which universities are evaluated.

During the webinar, the regional director of QS World University Rankings for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Zoya Zaitseva, told the participants about the methodology for selecting universities in the QS rating and the position of Kazakhstan universities in it.

Zoya Zaitseva focused on how to increase the recognition of the university, as well as what is strictly forbidden to do so as not to lose her position in the QS rating.

At the end of 2019, our university also applied for participation in the QS rating.

As Olga Klimentyevna noted: “Karaganda State Industrial University has a lot of serious work to do to improve its scientometric indicators, internationalization, and recognition among the international academic community. But this process is actively moving forward. ”

KSIU Press Service