Responses to the QS Academic Survey
QS has published the percentage of responses to this year's academic survey (which is about the best universities for research) from different countries.
The table below combines the percentages in the surveys of 2007, 2013 and 2018 (for the "2019" rankings) ranked by the percentages for 2013. The data for 2009 and 2013 are from a previous post.
There are some interesting things here. The UK has more responses than France and Germany combined.
There are more responses from Malaysia than from China.
There are more responses from Kazakhstan than from India.
There are almost as many responses from Australia, Canada and New Zealand as there are from the USA.
The number of responses from these countries has risen by a percentage point or more since 2013: Russia, Malaysia, Iraq, Kazakhstan.
The number of responses from these countries has fallen by a percentage point or more since 2013: USA, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Hungary.
Table: Percentage of responses to QS academic survey.
country | 2007 | 2013 | 2018 |
USA | 10.0 | 17.4 | 8.5 |
UK | 5.6 | 6.5 | 7.0 |
Brazil | 1.1 | 6.3 | 3.3 |
Italy | 3.3 | 4.7 | 3.5 |
Germany | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.5 |
Canada | 4.0 | 3.4 | 3.3 |
Australia | 3.5 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
France | 2.9 | 2.4 | 2.0 |
Japan | 1.9 | 2.9 | 3.5 |
Spain | 2.3 | 2.7 | 3.1 |
Mexico | 0.8 | 2.6 | 2.3 |
Hungary | -- | 2.0 | 0.9 |
Russia | 0.7 | 1.7 | 4.0 |
India | 3.5 | 1.7 | 2.6 |
Chile | -- | 1.7 | 2.0 |
Ireland | 1.5 | 1.6 | 0.9 |
Malaysia | 3.2 | 1.5 | 4.6 |
Belgium | 2.6 | 1.4 | 0.7 |
Hong Kong | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1.5 |
Taiwan | 0.7 | 1.3 | 2.0 |
Netherlands | 0.6 | 1.2 | 0.9 |
New Zealand | 4.1 | 1.2 | 1.0 |
Singapore | 2.5 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
China | 1.6 | 1.1 | 1.8 |
Portugal | 0.9 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
Colombia | -- | 1.1 | 1.6 |
Argentina | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
South Africa | 0.7 | 1.0 | 0.8 |
Denmark | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.5 |
Sweden | 1.7 | 0.9 | 0.8 |
Switzerland | 1.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
Austria | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.5 |
Turkey | 1.1 | 0.7 | 0.8 |
Indonesia | 1.2 | 0.5 | 0.9 |
Philippines | 1.8 | 0.3 | 0.5 |
Iraq | -- | 0.2 | 1.4 |
Kazakhstan | -- | 0.9 | 3.0 |
South Korea | ? | ? | 4.0 |
