QS World Rankings
About the QS Survey
QS rankings assess universities worldwide and are influential in shaping perceptions of academic institutions. You can play a role by taking part in one of the QS reputation surveys.
How you can have your say
As a DCU graduate, you can take part in one of two surveys. For the purposes of an important global survey of academic and employer opinion, we invite you to complete your details (name, job title, institution, and email address) confirming your consent to share your details to QS.
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Academic Reputation Survey: If you are an academic, you can take part in the QS Academic Reputation Survey. QS Academic Reputation Consent
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QS Employer Reputation Survey: If your current job involves employing staff, you can take part in the QS Employer Reputation Survey. OR If you are currently employed, but not in the above two categories, we would like to encourage you to approach your employer to ask if they would consent to be included in the QS Employer Reputation Survey. QS Employer Reputation Consent
If you consent to your contact details being passed to QS for this purpose exclusively, please complete our brief online consent form by December 23rd, 2025.
What to expect after consenting:
QS will email you the Reputation Survey in February or March 2026 from the email address rankings@qs.com. Please add this email to your safe sender or whitelist to ensure you receive it.
The resulting data will be used in aggregate form only. QS will not contact you for any other reason, or for more than two editions of their annual survey, without supplementary or separate consent. Your responses will be combined with those of many others around the world to form academic and employer reputation indicators used in the QS World University Rankings at global, regional, subject, and programme levels where relevant. Detailed information can be found here.
If you have any questions, please email the DCU Quality and Insights Officer at caroline.connolly@dcu.ie.