Your QS Stars Growth Playbook 

As a QS Stars rated institution, you have a powerful asset. Here you can find the strategic opportunities and tools available to you during your subscription period as our partner, specially designed to help you leverage your rating for maximum impact, whether your goal is to accelerate your institutional strategy or to amplify your student recruitment.

Choose Your Engine for Growth: Introducing the Booster Packs

Boost your confidence, master the field, become a certified professional. Learn the tools used by the world's top professionals. Learn more below. Booster Packs are one-time services that can be activated at any point during your active subscription. They are designed to help you translate your QS Stars data into measurable results.
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1. Strategic Booster Pack: Turn Insight into Impact

Don't just measure your excellence — actively build it. A standard QS Stars audit provides a crucial benchmark. The Strategic Booster Pack provides the engine for improvement, turning your audit from a static report into a dynamic roadmap for institutional advancement and innovation.

Key components

Post-Audit Advisory Workshop with a QS Analyst

One re-evaluation during subscription period

Optional: AI Self-Assessment for future-readiness (extra charge applies)

For universities that want to:

  • Maximize the ROI of their QS Stars engagement

  • Translate audit findings into a clear, prioritized action plan

  • Gain public recognition for improvements faster

  • Build a resilient, future-ready institution

  • Be guided with an execution plan for what they need to do

  • Maximize the ROI of their QS Stars engagement

2. Recruitment Booster Pack - Convert Trust into Applications

You've earned the QS Stars rating; now, make it your most powerful recruitment tool. This booster pack transforms your rating from a static credential into a dynamic, trust-building engine. We showcase the specific data points that students and parents care about most, directly on the world's most trusted university platform, and then drive targeted traffic to this compelling story of your excellence.
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Key components

Advanced Profile & Data Showcase on TopUniversities.com (one year validity)

Targeted Digital Campaigns (400k Impressions)

Official QS Social Media Promotion

Campaign Performance & ROI Reporting

For universities seeking to:

  • Translate a complex rating into a simple, powerful message for prospective students

  • Build deep trust by transparently showcasing institutional strengths

  • Drive high-quality applications from students who are a better fit for your institution

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Drive institutional value with QS Stars: Elevating visibility with Advanced profiles on TopUniversities.com  

Enhance your institution's global credibility by providing the transparency students seek. The Advanced Profile now integrates verified data from your QS Stars audit, allowing you to prove your strengths in key areas and build the trust that ultimately drives applications. Explore the key benefits below.

What are the enhanced Advanced profiles with QS Stars data?

This enhancement brings your QS Stars audit data out of the report and onto your public profile, displaying your specific institutional strengths as clear, visual signals of quality.

When a student visits your enhanced Advanced profile, they won't just see your QS Stars rating. They will see new, dedicated sections showcasing your performance across key student-centric categories such as:

🎓 Teaching Quality
💼 Employability
🏫 Facilities
💰 Scholarships & Bursaries
🚀 Career Outcomes & Student Support
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How It Works: A Simple, Automated Process

We've designed this to be a seamless, high-value addition with no extra work required from your team.

  • Eligibility: This feature is automatically enabled for all partners who have both a QS Stars rating and an Advanced profile on TopUniversities.com.
  • The Trigger: The enhanced data will appear on your profile if you have completed a QS Stars audit or go through an re-audit from January 2026 onward.
  • Automatic Integration: Our system will automatically pull the relevant category data and display it on your Advanced profile. You don't need to upload, format, or manage anything. It just works.

The goal is to ensure the data is current, relevant, and effortlessly integrated to maximize your visibility.

If you don't have an Advanced profile and would be interested to find out more, please contact us qsstars@qs.com

Key benefits

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Attract best-fit students with targeted insights

Instead of just seeing the Stars, students can now see your specific, audited strengths in key areas like Teaching Quality, Employability, and Facilities. This helps students who value what you excel at find you more easily.

Maximize the ROI of your QS Stars Audit

Your hard work in the QS Stars audit now generates direct marketing value. The detailed data that once sat in a report now works for you 24/7 on the world's leading university discovery platform, justifying your investment in quality assurance.

Differentiate your institution with credibility

Stand out from competitors by showcasing strengths backed by a trusted, third-party audit. This transparency builds trust with students and parents, validating your institution's quality claims with concrete, QS-verified data.

Create a richer, more persuasive profile

By adding these data-rich modules, your Advanced profile becomes a more powerful storytelling tool. It provides a multi-dimensional view of your institution, strengthening the overall student experience and driving higher engagement.