Academic Reputation Score
A ranking component based on surveys of academics worldwide, measuring how peers perceive a university's teaching and research quality.
Academic reputation scores are derived from large-scale surveys of scholars and academics worldwide. QS conducts the world's largest academic survey with over 130,000 responses, asking researchers to identify the best institutions in their field. This subjective but influential metric accounts for 40% of the QS ranking — the single largest component. The score tends to favor well-established universities with strong brand recognition and may lag behind rapidly improving institutions.
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