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QS Stars

QS Stars, a rating system that evaluates and rates universities worldwide, awarding universities with a rating of one to five stars, five stars being the highest rating.

Universities are evaluated against a broad range of criteria, assessing the university’s research quality and teaching quality, graduate employability status. The rating system also gives students the opportunity to see what universities have to offer in terms of their infrastructure. Universities International reputation is also considered in the evaluation. Activities such as Knowledge Transfer and Third Mission are also measured within the evaluation. Rated universities recieve a QS Stars badge displaying the number of stars they were awarded,they can be displayed on their websites, brochures and other promotional material.

Research Quality
Indicators considered here include domestic assessments of research quality, productivity (i.e. number of papers published), citations (i.e. how recognised and referred to those papers are by other academics), awards (e.g. Nobel Prizes or Fields Medals)

Graduate Employability
Graduate employability encompasses more than academic strength, focusing on ‘work-readiness’ - the ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural team, to deliver presentations, to manage people and projects. Common indicators in this area are surveys of employers, graduate employment rates and average graduate salaries.

Teaching Quality
A key role of a university is the nurture of tomorrow's finest minds, inspiring the next generation of potential research academics. Typical indicators here are domestic teaching quality assessments, collation of student feedback, national student surveys and student faculty ratios.

Infrastructure
University infrastructure is an indicator which enables students to know what to expect from their university experience. Indicators such as sporting and medical facilities, number of students societies are considered within this criterion.

Internationalization
Here, effective indicators could be the proportion of international students and staff, the numbers of exchange students arriving and departing, the number and strength of international partnerships with other universities or the number of graduates pursuing further study at overseas universities.

Innovation & Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Transfer and Innovation, the output of the universities activities and findings to economy, society and culture, has become increasingly relevant for universities.

Third Mission
An effective indicator could be the university's contribution to the its local community.