An insight into quality and global advancement from QS

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Get it right

• An insight into quality and global advancement
  from QS
• Mandy Mok
• Managing Director
• QS Asia
• (Asia Pacific, Middle East and New Zealand)

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About this presentation - QS OverviewQS
LondonQS AsiaQS Intelligence unit
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• APPLE has done it
• So has Nike
• And Coca Cola and Starbucks
• GROUND RULES
• 1 KNOW YOUR CONSUMER
• 2 BE DISTINCTIVE
• 3 BE CONSISTENT

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QS vision

• QS strives to be the most trusted on-line and
  off-line meeting place for all candidates,
  schools and businesses for career and educational
  related decisions.
• We believe this will lead us to become the
  worlds foremost media, events and solutions
  company in the international higher education
  field.

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QS mission

• To enable motivated people to fulfil their
  potential by fostering educational achievement,
  career development and international mobility

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QS LONDON

• Where it all started

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• First edition in 1989
• Leading review of MBA programs and MBA career
  opportunities worldwide
• Informed and up-to-date review of MBA programs
  and careers
• QS TopMBA Career Guide (60.3)
• Business Week (59.8)
• The Financial Times (53.8)
• The Economist (33.4)

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• The WMT Fall Tours
• Latin America (31 Aug to 16 Sept) 8 Cities
• Mexico City Caracas Bogota Lima
  Santiago Buenos Aires Sao Paulo Rio De
  Janeiro
• North America (13 Sept to 5 Oct) 11 Cities
• Toronto Chicago Miami Atlanta
  Washington New York Seattle Houston Los
  Angeles San Francisco
• Europe (4 Oct to 31 Oct) 13 Cities
• Tel Aviv Kiev Moscow Paris Bucharest
  Madrid London Milan Athens Istanbul
  Munich Zurich Frankfurt
• Asia (3 Nov to 26 Nov) 12 Cities
• Seoul Tokyo Hong Kong Shanghai
  Guangzhou Beijing Taipei Manila Bangkok
  Singapore Kuala Lumpur Ho Chi Minh
• India Middle East (28 Nov to 13 Dec) 8 Cities
• New Delhi Mumbai Hyderabad Bangalore
  Chennai Dubai Abu Dhabi Cairo
• include EMBA

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topmba.com

• More than 1.6 million visitors annually,
  consistently spread throughout the year
• Average of 5 page views per visit
• Visitors from over 200 countries
• Most visitors 1. USA, 2. India, 3. UK, 4.
  Canada,
• 5. France, 6. Russia, 7. Germany
• High Google ranking for organic
• search returns
• Strong viral marketing campaigns through
• LinkedIn, Facebook, Orkut, Xing and Twitter

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• Top 200 Business Schools as ranked by The
  Financial Times
• Limited to 20 schools in each fair
• Combination of 1-on-1 meetings, group discussions
  presentations
• Pre-screened, pre-selected
• Experienced candidate management team from
  ex-admissions staff from leading B-Schools
• Up to 32 targeted meetings

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• Latin America (30 Aug to 6 Sept)
• Mexico Bogota Santiago
• North America (13 Sept to 26 Sept)
• Toronto Washington New York
• Europe (07 Oct to 31 Oct)
• Moscow Madrid London Zurich Frankfurt
• Asia (02 Nov to 22 Nov)
• Seoul Tokyo Shanghai Beijing Singapore
• Middle East (8 Dec)
• Dubai

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QS World MBA Tour Premium

• Only B-schools listed in the QS Global 200
  business schools research (our own research into
  the worlds best business schools)
• Smaller and more personalised events
• Greater service to both school and candidate
• Targeted marketing aims to bring the very best
  and most pro-active MBA candidates
• Tokyo 1 Sep Seoul 3 Sep Beijing 5 Sep
  Shanghai 7 Sep Taipei 9 Sep

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• The WGST Fall Tours
• Latin America (31 Aug to 11 Sept) 6 Cities
• Mexico City Caracas Bogota Lima Santiago
  Buenos Aires
• North America (15 Sept to 26 Sept) 6 Cities
• Chicago Boston Montreal Toronto
  Washington New York
• Europe (4 Oct to 31 Oct) 16 Cities
• Amsterdam Copenhagen Kiev St Petersburg
  Moscow Paris Bucharest Sofia London
  Milan Athens Thessaloniki Istanbul Warsaw
  Berlin Frankfurt
• Asia (2 Nov to 25 Nov) 11 Cities
• Seoul Tokyo Beijing Wuhan Nanjing
• Shanghai Guangzhou Taipei Bangkok
• Ho Chi Minh Kuala Lumpur
• India (27 Nov to 10 Dec) 7 Cities
• Pune New Delhi Mumbai Hyderabad
• Bangalore Chennai Kolkata

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• More than 10,000 people have downloaded
  TopGradSchool Guide 2009 from
• www.topgradschool.com
• In 2008, 450,000 unique visitors created
• 1.75 million page views on topgradschool.com,
  underlining its emergence as key source of
  independent and impartial information for
• prospective masters and PhD candidates

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• Official Website of the Times Higher Education
  QS World University Rankings
• Launch of 2008 THE-QS World University Rankings
  123,091 visits (almost 10 of 2007s annual
  traffic more than twice the optimistic
  projection!)
• www.topuniversities.com passed 2M visits for the
  year 2008
• To date for the month of June 09
• Visits 356,699 211,332 (68.79) June 08
• Absolute unique visits 284,008 173,245
  (63.91)
• June 08
• Page views 1,471,089 889,847 (65.31) June
  08
• Top 5 countries USA 56,291 UK 37,723 India
  25,346
• Japan 19,760 Canada 13,717

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• THE Official Guide for the Top 500 universities
  in the world
• Sold distributed worldwide
• NOW Available in a Chinese edition (2010)
• Chinas Project 211 106 universities
• Top 700 Academies / Institutes / Colleges
• Top 100 National Level Education Association
  for
• Higher Education
• Top 1,000 High School Libraries
• Top 200 National Education Agents their
  Branches
• 1,000 National Education Book Stores
• 100 Government Libraries in each Province

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QS Top University Tour

• Restricted only to the universities that are
  ranked within the
• THE-QS World University Rankings top 500
• Primarily for the Undergrads
• An annual circuit of 4 one-day fairs held in 2010
• New Delhi 27 Jan
• Mumbai 29 Jan
• Bangalore 30 Jan
• Shanghai 1 Feb
• Hong Kong 3 Feb

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QS ASIA

• Education tools, strategically created with an
  Asian perspective, to reach out to the regional
  and international arena

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Introduction to QS Asia

• Activities managed by QS Asia include
• - QS-APPLE Conference and Exhibition
• - QS-MAPLE Conference and Exhibition
• - QS WorldClass Seminar
• - QS WorldClass SHOWCASE (new publication)
• - QS WorldARTS Tour

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Asia Pacific Professional Leaders In Education
Asia Pacific Professional Leaders In Education
The Prime Conference and Exhibition for Top
International Educators in Asia, Europe, America
and Australasia

• Helping to build world-class universities for
  Asia Pacific communities through global
  partnership and collaboration

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Asia Pacific Professional Leaders In Education
Who should attend QS-APPLE?

• University leaders and their deputies
• Strategic Planners
• International Directors, Recruiters and
  Developers
• Foreign Language Specialists
• All those whose portfolio includes university
  internationalisation and
• student mobility

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Asia Pacific Professional Leaders In Education
Additional Features for QS-APPLE?

• QS Business Schools Workshop Asia (New in
  2009)
• 23rd November, delegates will hear from
  specialists and international leaders in business
  education about trends in MBA business schools
  and teaching programmes

• Times Higher Education-QS World University
  Rankings Workshop
• Also 23rd November, session includes an
  introduction to THE-QS World University Ranking,
  New Developments and Localised Observations and
  ways to advance your universitys global
  recognition

• QS-APPLE Creative Awards
• Celebrates impactful and effective
  communication, conveying to prospective students,
  staff and partners the image and character of
  your institutions branding presence

• QS-APPLE Exhibition - Students Open Evening
• An extra evening for student access to the
  Exhibition to meet with institutions