How It Works
As part of your subscription, you have access to a certain number of Master Peer List members.
For these institutions, you can view the most detailed data across the platform.
For institutions outside of your Master Peer List, you will see only high-level information - deep detail (like metrics data) will not be available.
Data Available for All Institutions
For every university on the platform, you can view:
Overall Rank, Score and Percentile:
See the overall performance in World, Regional and Subject Rankings.Indicators:
Access Indicator level ranks, scores, and percentiles for the datasets included in your subscription.Ranking Bands:
Institutions are shown in bands (e.g., 201–250) as seen publicly on the QS websites (such as TopUniversities.com).
Data Exclusive to Master Peer List Institutions
Institutions in your Master Peer List have a higher level of data granularity. For these, you can view:
Metric-Level Data:
Actual metric values (not just scores and ranks), such as:
Citation counts
Faculty and staff headcounts
Graduate employment rate value, etc.
Detailed Reputation Data:
Counts of academic and employer respondents
Breakdown of nominations by Subject and Geography
Exact Positions:
Instead of ranking bands, the precise position (e.g., 203 instead of 201–250) is available
Summary Table
Data Type | All Institutions | Master Peer List Only |
Overall ranks and scores | ✔ | ✔ |
Indicator-level scores, ranks, percentiles | ✔ (only for the datasets in your subscription) | ✔ |
Detailed metric values (e.g., headcounts) |
| ✔ |
Reputation respondent counts |
| ✔ |
Reputation nominations breakdown by subject/geography |
| ✔ |
Exact ranking position |
| ✔ |
Ranking bands (e.g., 201–250) | ✔ |
|
Why This Matters
The Master Peer List ensures that your benchmarking and analysis focuses on the institutions most relevant to you.
It also defines the scope of your subscription for detailed insights.
What You Can Do
Review your current Master Peer List and confirm the institutions included.
Add or update institutions in your list to adjust the scope of detailed data you can access.
Remember: detailed metrics and deep comparative data will only display for institutions included in your Master Peer List.
Troubleshooting & Common Questions
Why is metric-level or nomination data missing for some institutions?
If charts or tables appear blank or have missing data, it may be because the institution is not in your Master Peer List. Only these institutions have detailed data.
Why do some tables show fewer institutions than expected?
When viewing metric-level or reputation nominations data, only the institutions present in both your selection and your Master Peer List will appear.
Why do some higher-banded institutions have seemingly lower scores?
If you notice an institution in, for example, the “200+” band with a lower score than an institution ranked at “312”, it may be the institution displayed as only the “200+” is not in your Master Peer List (for example its actual position might be 403)