Whilst Our Demand for Data Is Increasingly Extensive, It Is Not Our Intention to Instigate

DEFINATIONS

This is the main statistics interface for submitting data to QS. Here you can enter information that will appear in your institution’s online profile, or statistics that may be used to feed into QS research reports such as the QS World University Rankings®.

Whilst our demand for data is increasingly extensive, it is not our intention to instigate unnecessary work.

Time Period – Unless otherwise stated the time period which should apply to any statistic is the last annual reporting period (the last complete academic, financial or calendar year, whichever is easier to provide).

Filter by Report – Whilst we would encourage you to fill out as a complete a record as possible, we also recognise that you may want to prioritise the most crucial aspects. Use the bar below to filter for the stats contributing to each specific project.

INFRASTRUCTURE:

This category gathers information on the physical infrastructure, facilities and environment of your institution.

1.Wireless Network Coverage

What percentage of your campus has wireless network access (accessible to students, excluding parks and sports fields)?

2.Sporting Facilities

Number of sporting facilities either owned by the university or that students have regular access to (verified by operator).

For the purposes of this assessment, sporting facilities include:

general recreation area(s)
swimming pool(s)
fitness gym(s)
indoor sports courts – e.g. squash, badminton, basketball
outdoor sports courts – e.g. tennis, netball, basketball
outdoor sports pitches – e.g. baseball, football, cricket; athletics track
stadium where a sports event can be held and which is partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow a minimum of 1000 spectators to stand or sit and view the event

3.Library Acquisitions

Number of new catalogue entries1 in the past annual reporting period2.

1 Catalogue entries include books, journals and periodicals in either physical or electronic form

2 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

4.Student Rooms with Internet Access

Number of rooms in student accommodation/dormitories that have Internet access (either wired or wireless).

5.On-campus Computers

Number of computers on campus in computer labs and common areas available for student use.

6.Student Accommodation

Total number of rooms in university-owned or university-run student residences/dormitories available to students.

7.Student Societies

Number of student administered1 organisations (e.g. international student society, music society, sports clubs, debating society, student union)

1 The qualifying characteristic is that the organisation should be student-led. A sports club that does not have student leadership would not qualify, for example.

8.Medical Facilities

Number of on campus medical centres with basic medical equipment and at least one doctor OR one nurse providing medical assistance to students.

Please provide in the message box the number of full-time/part-time doctors and nurses.

GRADUATE- OUTPUT

1.Full-Time Careers Advisors

Total number of staff employed by your institution on a full-time basis who are exclusively responsible for career support for your students (undergraduate and/or postgraduate)

2.PhDs Awarded

Total number of PhDs (or equivalent terminal degree2) awarded in the last annual reporting period1

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

2A terminal degree is the highest academic qualification in a given field.

3.Graduate Employment

Proportion of graduates (excluding those opting to pursue further study) in permanent employment within 12 months1 of graduation

1 We do not want to instigate additional work, if you already collect graduate employment data for a different period post graduation (e.g. 3 months or 6 months) please supply those numbers and specify the period in the messages box.

Percentage:

4.Graduates Pursuing Further Study

Percentage of graduates (from undergraduate programs in the academic year ending prior to the last annual reporting period1) pursuing further study at your own institution or any other within 12 months after graduation.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

Percentage:

STUDENTS-OVERALL:

1.Number of female students

Number of students who are female out of the total number of students studying at your university

2.Number of Male Students

Number of students who are male out of the total number of students studying at your university

3.Student Fees - Domestic

Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that a domestic student would be expected to pay for any program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree.

4.Student Fees - International

Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that an international student would be expected to pay for a program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree.

5.Exchange Students - Inbound

Total number of students attending your university on international exchange programs for at least 1 semester in the last annual reporting period1.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

6.Exchange Students - Outbound

Total number of students registered at your institution who have attended another institution on an exchange program for at least 1 semester in the last annual reporting period1.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

7.International Students

Number of students who are foreign nationals. The term ‘international’ is hereby determined by citizenship. For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states. In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China.
In case of dual citizenship, the ‘deciding’ criteria should be ‘citizenship obtained through birth’, basically first passport obtained.

8.Students

Total number of students. Where possible, please only include students pursuing degree level programs or higher.

STUDENTS- UNDERGRADUATE:

1.Undergraduate Students - First Year

Number of students pursuing a Bachelor’s level or equivalent degree in their first year of study. This excludes certificates/diplomas and associate’s degrees.

2.Undergraduate Fees - Domestic

Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that a domestic student would be expected to pay for an undergraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree.

3.Undergraduate Fees - International

Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that an international student would be expected to pay for an undergraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree.

4.Undergraduate Exchange Students - Outbound

Number of undergraduate students registered at your institution who have attended another institution on an exchange program for at least 1 semester during the last annual reporting period1.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

5.Undergraduate Exchange Students - Inbound

Number of undergraduate students attending your university on international exchange programs for at least 1 semester during the annual reporting period1.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

6.Undergraduate International Students

Number of undergraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term ‘international’ is hereby determined by citizenship.

For EU countries, this includes all foreign nationals, even nationals of other EU states.

In Hong Kong, this includes students from Mainland China.

In case of dual citizenship, the ‘deciding’ criteria should be ‘citizenship obtained through birth’, basically first passport obtained.

Please exclude all exchange students.

As for language students, if the language students take up a particular language course that is outlined as ‘undergraduate degree program’ they should be included under ‘international undergraduate students’.

Language students who take part in a course not contributing to a degree qualification should be counted under ‘Total International Students’.

7.Undergraduate Students

Number of students pursuing a Bachelors level or equivalent degree. This excludes certificates/diplomas and associates degrees.

INNOVATION & KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER:

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1.Industrial Research Projects

Number of distinct corporations (non-university and non-government) that have had joint-research projects with yielding publications in Scopus in the last 5 years.1

Please provide a list of corporation names, published joint-research project names, country of the corporation and year.

2.Spin-off Companies

Number of spin-off companies established in the last 5 years still operating and no longer requiring support from the university.

Please provide details and links in the messages box.

The list should include: name of company, date of establishment of company, name of individual/ group/organisation that established the company, name of individual/ group/organisation that is running the company now, if it is still funded by the university and link to its website.

3.Patents

Number of current patents registered with national and/or international patent offices.

Please provide in the message box a first list of national patents and second one of international patents.

Please include : title of patent, name of inventor and applicant, publication date, publication number or applicant number, country of application.

STUDENT SATISFACTION:

Student satisfaction is an increasingly popular measure in university rankings and evaluations at a domestic level. In principle, it serves as a measure both of teaching quality and related factors contributing to the student experience.

In practice, it is difficult to collect reliably and data is likely to prove challenging to compare internationally.

This category represents our first attempt to assess what information might be available on a global level.

1.Student Satisfaction - Teaching

Percentage of all students expressing satisfaction with the quality of their program

Source? This data can be sourced from an existing survey completed by your students, for example the NSS (UK) or AuSSI (Australia), in which case please specify the source in the accompanying message box. Alternatively, the QS Intelligence Unit can provide a customised survey for you to distribute to students.

2.Student Satisfaction - Overall

Percentage of all students expressing satisfaction with their overall university experience

RESEARCH PRODUCTIVITY &QUALITY:

Data submitted in this section are for corroboration only. QSIU gathers these data once annually from Scopus – the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature.

Drawing the correct data out of the database is more complex than it may seem. The questions in this section represent an opportunity to provide us an indication of the scale of your research operation and enable us to identify any significant discrepancies.

Feel free to use any source to which you have access, but please specify in the accompanying message box what source has been used.

1.Number of Citations

Total number of citations in the past 5 years for papers published in the past 5 years

Publications and citations are counted from the five years leading up to December 31 in the last completed calendar year.

2.Number of Papers

Total number of papers published in the past 5 years

Publications and citations are counted from the five years leading up to December 31 in the last completed calendar year.

3.Prolific Academic Experts

Number of academic faculty members internationally recognised for work (e.g. Nobel Prizes, Fields Medals, equivalent arts-based awards…).

Please use the messages function to supply a full breakdown of awards received, names of the recipients and year of achievement.

NOTE: This data will not be used as an indicator for rankings. We are trying to build a list of multi-disciplinary awards with which we hope to do some supplementary analysis in the future.

THIRD MISSION:

“Third Mission” refers to all activities concerned with the generation, use, application and exploitation of knowledge and other university capabilities outside academic environments (Molas-Gallart, Salter, Patel et al. 2002)

1.Scholarships and Bursaries

Number of 50% tuition fees minimum scholarships awarded by the university in the past annual reporting period1. State scholarships cannot be included.

Please provide in the message box the full list with number of students, type of scholarship (need-based, sport-based…), reporting period, amount of the scholarship and percentage covered by the scholarship.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

2.Community / Cultural Investment

Total amount spent on community projects or cultural preservation within 200km of any campus of affiliated facility in the last annual reporting period1

Community investment relates to investment in the community local to where the institution is based, this could be anything from urban redevelopment to investing in local primary and secondary education or to members of or groups within the local community through any other conduit (e.g hospitals, prisons, homeless shelters, students involved in community service etc…)

Cultural preservation could be perceived as investment in projects that directly contribute to the preservation of otherwise waning aspects of an institution’s national culture. Universities in Wales, for example, spend a great deal on protecting the Welsh language and extending its use. There may be other aspects of a national culture which a university may explicitly or implicitly take a responsibility to preserve.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to.

Please provide a list of the community projects, contribution amount, date, location and a brief description of the project.

FINANCIALS:

This category includes a range of statistics relating to funding and financial status.

In time, with sufficient data, we hope to use this data for deeper analysis – perhaps to identify institutions that are able to deliver a substantial impact with limited resources.

1.Alumni Donations

Please provide a total figure for alumni donations in the last annual reporting period1

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete financial, academic or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

2.Research Funding - Industry

The total amount of income from industry either for use of facilities, commissioning of research or licensing of intellectual property referring to the latest annual reporting period1.

Please include only externally sourced funding from the public and private sectors and exclude private donor support.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

3.Research Funding - Government

Please provide a total figure for government funding allocated specifically for research for the last annual reporting period1 – funds from the EU or similar trans-national body can be included.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

4.Facilities Investment

Total amount spent in the last annual reporting period1 on infrastructure and facilities investment (e.g. new buildings, refurbishments and upgrades, communications infrastructure, sports facilities, laboratory equipment etc…)

This can include external sources as well as private donors.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

5.Research Funding - Total

Please provide a total figure for ONLY externally sourced funding, such as government and industrial funding, allocated specifically for research for the latest completed academic year or for the last 12 months.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

6.Annual Library Spending

Library expenditure for the most recent annual reporting period1. Please focus on acquisitions and exclude operating costs.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

STUDENTS-GRADUATE/POST GRAD:

This category draws together statistics pertaining to the graduate / postgraduate1 student body. If you are unable to provide separate undergraduate and graduate statistics. You can enter them for the overall student body here.

1 For clarity, graduate and postgraduate are synonyms to embrace all students pursuing Masters or Doctoral programs. The term graduate is more broadly used in US institutions and postgraduate in British and European institutions.

1.Graduate / Postgraduate Fees - Domestic

Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that a domestic student would be expected to pay for a graduate / postgraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree.

2.Graduate / Postgraduate Fees - International

Average tuition fees per academic year (two semesters) that an international student would be expected to pay for a graduate / postgraduate program, with program referring to the complete range of courses contributing to a degree.

3.Graduate / Postgraduate Exchange Students - Outbound

Number of graduate / postgraduate students registered at your institution who have attended another institution on an exchange program for at least 1 semester during the last annual reporting period1.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

4.Graduate / Postgraduate Exchange Students - Inbound

Number of graduate / postgraduate students attending your university on international exchange programs for at least 1 semester during the annual reporting period1.

1 The annual reporting period is the last complete academic, financial or calendar year. Please supply whichever is easier to collect.

5.Graduate / Postgraduate International Students

Number of graduate / postgraduate students who are foreign nationals. The term ‘international’ is hereby determined by citizenship.