2019 QS Rankings Fact Sheet - University of Saskatchewan

2019 QS World University Rankings

20191 QS World University Rankings

Summary

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), a company that specializes in providing study abroad services, released the 2019 QS World University Rankings on June 6, 2018. In total, more than 4,700 universities in 151 countries were evaluated and 1011 were ranked2, including 26 Canadian universities and 60 new universities in the top 1,000. The University of Saskatchewan (U of S) was ranked 461 in the world, dropping ten positions from the prior year. Considering there were approximately 26,000 universities globally, the U of S was among the top 1.8% universities in the world.

Domestically, the U of S ranked 16 among Canadian universities. The top ranking Canadian universities were University of Toronto (28), McGill University (33), University of British Columbia (47), and University of Alberta (109).

What is the ranking based on?

The QS World University Rankings is based on the weighted scores of six indicators listed in the table below:

Indicator Academic reputation Employer reputation

Description

Weight

Source

Peer review survey divided into five subject areas including Arts and Humanities, Engineering and IT, Life Sciences and Biomedicine, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences

Employers surveyed on the quality of graduates

QS Global Academic 40%

Survey 10% QS Employer Survey

Citations per faculty

Research performance factored against the size of the research body

Scopus abstract and 20%

citation database

Faculty per student International faculty International students

Student to faculty ratio and intended to evaluate level of teaching quality Proportion of international faculty members

Proportion of international student members

Data provided by 20%

institutions Data provided by 5% institutions Data provided by 5% institutions

For more information about the QS ranking methodology, please go

1 The QS rankings are named to reflect the intended readers: students who plan to attend university in the following year. 2 The top 500 universities were ranked individually from 1st to 500th place. Universities that were ranked between 501st to 600th were placed in

groups of ten (e.g. 501-510, 511-520, 521-530, and so on). The remaining universities were ranked into categories: 601-650, 651-700, 701-750, 751-800 and 801-1000.

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2019 QS World University Rankings

Rank by indicator

Globally, the U of S ranked highest in international faculty (223) and international students (256), and lowest in academic reputation (501+) and employer reputation (501+). The U of S improved in the international faculty indicator, but dropped in each of the other five indicators, which resulted in a slightly lower placement (461).

Compared to our U15 peers, U of S ranked highest in international students (9) and faculty per student (10), where our scores were close to the U15 medians. We ranked lowest in academic reputation (14) and employer reputation (14), where we were significantly below U15 medians.

U of S Scores and Ranks

Score1

Rank

World Change from last year

Rank

U15 Change from last year

Academic reputation

10.7

501+

-100

14

0

Employer reputation

10.1

501+

-100

14

0

Citations per faculty

34.5

369

-1

11

+2

Faculty per student

32.0

476

-79

10

0

International faculty

75.4

223

+3

13

0

International students

56.5

256

-6

9

0

Overall

25.3

461

-10

14

0

1 The QS rankings uses z-scores to normalize the results. That is, indicator scores are calculated based on the distance between each value from the mean average of

the entire dataset. Theoretically, a U of S score of 10.7 in academic reputation means that 10.7% of the universities who participated in the QS rankings are ranked

below the U of S; or in other words, 89.3 % of the universities scored higher.

U of S Scores vs. U15 Medians

90.4

42.0 25.3 Overall

33.7

10.7 Academic Reputation

75.4

48.5 44.1

35.6

34.5

32.0

10.1

Employer Reputation

Citations per Faculty per Student International

Faculty

Faculty

U of S U15 Median

61.6 56.5

International Students

For more information, visit

usask.ca/ipa

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