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QS Overall Rankings

The QS World University Rankings is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS).  

In June 2024, QS published their 21st edition of the  QS World University Ranking Results 2025, with the largest ever number of universities partaking - a total of 1,503 institutions across 106 locations.  University of Galway was ranked 273rd place in 2024 (up from 289th in 2023).   

The results incorporate 17.5 million academic papers published between 2018 and 2022. They also reflect the expert opinions of over 150,000 academic faculty and over 99,000 employers who partake in both the academic and employer reputation survey. The QS introduced faculty area normalisation in 2015 to ensure that institutions specialising in Life Sciences and Natural Sciences were not unduly advantaged. See more about the QS Methodology used in the rankings here.  

New in the 2023: For their 20th edition, QS significantly evolved their methodology, reflecting the shift towards sustainability and employability and research collaborations in higher education. Three new indicators were introduced and some of the original metrics were rebalanced as detailed below: 

The chart below shows University of Galway's overall ranking performance in the QS World University Ranking since 2011 .

University of Galway's Ranking result 2011-2024

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