QS World ilk kez 2004 yılında Times Higher Education ile ortaklaşa çalışma yapıp, Quacquarelli Symonds tarafından derlenen karşılaştırmalı kolej ve üniversite sıralaması portföyüdür. QS World 2009 yılında Times Higher Education ile yollarını ayırmıştır ve şu anda tek başına dünyanın en çok kullanılan ve güvenilen dünya üniversite sıralaması yayımlayan bir kuruluş haline gelmiştir.
QS Ranking dünya üniversite sıralamalarını yayımlamadan evvel akademik itibar, fakülte ve öğrenci sayısı, uluslararası öğrenci oranları ve üniversitelerin yayımladığı akademik makaleleri vb. gibi bir çok önemli kriterleri baz alarak dünyanın en iyi üniversiteleri belirlenmektedir.
| Sıralamalar | Üniversite İsimleri |
| 1. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) |
| 2. | University of Cambridge |
| 3. | University of Oxford |
| 4. | Harvard University |
| 5. | Stanford University |
| 6. | Imperial College London |
| 7. | ETH Zurich |
| 8. | National University of Singapore (NUS) |
| 9. | UCL |
| 10. | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) |
| 11. | University of Chicago |
| 12. | University of Pennsylvania |
| 13. | Cornell University |
| 14. | The University of Melbourne |
| 15. | California Institute of Technology (Caltech) |
| 16. | Yale University |
| =17. | Peking University |
| =17. | Princeton University |
| =19. | The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney) |
| =19. | The University of Sydney |
| 21. | University of Toronto |
| 22. | The University of Edinburgh |
| 23. | Columbia University |
| 24. | Universite PSL, Paris |
| 25. | Tsinghua University |
| =26. | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) |
| =26. | The University of Hong Kong |
| =28. | John Hopkins University |
| =28. | The University of Tokyo |
| 29. | University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) |
| 30. | McGill University |
| 32. | The University of Manchester |
| 33. | University of Michigan- Ann Arbor |
| =34. | Australian National University (ANU) |
| =34. | University of British Columbia (UBC) |
| 36. | EPFL – Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne |
| 37. | Technical University of Minich |
| =38. | Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) |
| =38. | New York University (NYU) |
| 40. | King’s College London |
| 41. | Seoul National University |
| 42 | Monash University |
| 43. | The University of Queensland (UQ) |
| =44. | Zhejiang University |
| 45. | The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) |
| 46. | Kyoto University |
| =47. | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
| =47. | Northwestern University |
| =47. | The Chinese Univesity of Hong Kong (CUHK) |
| 50 | Fudan University |
| 51 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU ) |
| 52. | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 53. | University of Amsterdam |
| 54. | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat München |
| 55. | University of Bristol |
| 56. | KAIST – Korea Advanced Institure of Science & Technology |
| 57. | Duke University |
| 58. | University of Texas at Austin |
| 59. | Sorbonne University |
| 60. | The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) |
| 61. | KU Leuven |
| 62. | University of California, San Diego (UCSD) |
| 63. | University of Washington |
| 64. | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| =65. | The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) |
| =65. | Universiti Malaya (UM) |
| 67. | The University of Warwick |
| 68. | The University of Auckland |
| 69. | National Taiwan University (NTU) |
| 70. | City University of Hong Kong |
| 71. | Universite Paris- Saclay |
| 72. | University of Western Australia |
| =73. | Brown University |
| =73. | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| 75. | University of Leeds |
| =76. | University of Glasgow |
| =76. | Yonsei University |
| 78. | Durham University |
| 79. | Korea University |
| 80. | Osaka University |
| =81. | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin |
| =81. | University of Southampton |
| 83. | Pennsylvania State University (PSU) |
| 84. | University of Birmingham |
| =85. | Lund University |
| =85. | Universidade de Sao Paulo |
| =87. | Lomonosov Moscow State University |
| =87. | Universitat Heidelberg |
| 89. | The University of Adelaide |
| 90. | University of Technology Sydney |
| =91. | Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech) |
| =91. | University of Zurich |
| =93. | Boston University |
| =93. | Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) |
| =95. | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) |
| =95. | University of St Andrews |
| 97. | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 98. | Freie Universitaet Berlin |
| 99. | Purdue University |
| =100. | Pohang University of Science and Technology |
| =100. | University of Nottingham |