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November 21, 2013

Paris Tops QS Best Student Cities Rankings 2014

Global Giants, University Rankings

Global Giants, University Rankings

Photos: (From Top) Paris, London.

Paris has once again topped the annual QS Best Student Cities, a ranking of the world’s top cities for students, released today. London was two points behind, narrowly missing the top spot.

The ranking, compiled by the team behind the annual QS World University Rankings, is based on five key pillars, which are then broken down into individual criteria: university rankings; student mix; quality of living; employer activity and affordability.

Two pre-requisites have been established to identify the cities evaluated in this exercise. The first is that each city must have a population of over 250,000, the second that it must be home to at least two ranked institutions in the QS World University Rankings. 98 cities in the world qualify on this basis, 50 have been published.

This year, the number of criteria has increased from 12 to 14, adding in the Globalization and World Cities Index as an indicator for “quality of living ” with a focus on the cities’ influence in the global arena.

Thirty countries are represented with the most cities in the US (7), followed by Australia (6), Canada (3) and UK (3).

The new countries represented in the top 50 are Norway, with Oslo (48), New Zealand, with Auckland (18) and Czech Republic with Prague (45).

QS Best Student Cities 2014

RANK — CITY

1 — Paris
2 — London
3 — Singapore
4 — Sydney
5 — Melbourne
6 — Zurich
7 — Hong Kong
8 — Boston
9 — Montreal
10 — Munich
11 — Berlin
12 — San Francisco
13 — Toronto
14 — Seoul
15 — Dublin
16 — Vienna
17 — Tokyo
18 — Auckland
19 — Beijing
20 — Copenhagen
21 — New York
22 — Vancouver
23 — Chicago
24 — Barcelona
25 — Milan
26 — Brisbane
27 — Stockholm
28 — Taipei
29 — Manchester
30 — Perth
31 — Madrid
32 — Edinburgh
33 — Brussels
34 — Buenos Aires
35 — Shanghai
36 — Amsterdam
37 — Canberra
38 — Adelaide
39 — Los Angeles
40 — Moscow
41 — Lyon
42 — Washington DC
43 — Kuala Lumpur
44 — Philadelphia
45 — Prague
46 — Mexico City
47 — Helsinki
48 — Oslo
49 — Santiago
50 — Kyoto

Ben Sowter, head of research at QS says: “With students becoming increasingly internationally-mobile, our aim is to widen students’ horizons, highlighting the appeal of cities which they may not have previously considered as a potential study destination.”

|GlobalGiants.Com|


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