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QS Quacquarelli Symonds is the world’s leading network for universities and business schools to target, meet and select the best qualified candidates from around the world. Our services include the QS World MBA Tour, TopMBA.com, QS World Grad School Tour, TopGradSchool.com, and TopUniversities.com, to name a few.  We are also the producers of the QS World University Rankings™ (formerly known as the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings 2004-2009). Our mission is to enable motivated people anywhere in the world to fulfil their potential through higher education, international mobility and career development. With this in mind, QS is committed to truly ‘raising the bar’ of global higher education standards for the benefit of current and future generations.

We are a medium-sized company with over 150 staff in offices throughout the world: London, Paris, Stuttgart, Singapore, Shanghai, Boston, Washington DC, Johannesburg and Sydney. A multi-cultural employee base, there are 26 languages spoken in the marketing department alone. The QS World MBA Tour travels to 66 cities in 42 countries enabling over 75,000 ambitious MBA candidates to meet face-to-face with high calibre business schools each year. The QS World Grad School Tour visits 61 cities in 35 countries bringing the complete A to Z of postgraduate programs to over 50,000 interested masters and PhD students.

The QS World University Rankings™ is published annually and ranks the world’s top 500 universities. QS produces the QS World University Rankings™ using citation data from the Scopus database, a division of Elsevier. Results are published in key media around the world, including US News & World Report.

The team behind the QS World University Rankings™:

Nunzio Quacquarelli, Managing Director of QS, took his MBA at The Wharton School in the USA, where he won the Glockner Prize for Management, after gaining an MA at the University of Cambridge. At Wharton, Nunzio also led the team that won the Moot Corp Business Venture Award in 1990. Before starting his own business Nunzio worked in strategy consulting for Mercer Management Consulting and Bain & Company, in the UK and Italy.

Ben Sowter, Head of QS Intelligence Unit, is responsible for the operational management of all major QS research projects and is actively involved in all the collection, compilation and tabulation of data for the QS World University Rankings ™. A regular on the international conference circuit, Ben’s lectures, seminars, workshops and opinions are highly sought after.

John O’Leary is a British journalist, formerly editor of the Times Higher Education Supplement and previously Education Editor of The Times. He is also the author of the 2005 Times Good University Guide.

Martin Ince is former editor of the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. Martin works as a freelance journalist and media adviser and is author of ten books, most recently the Rough Guide to the Earth (2007).

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