Overview
This article will help you get familiar with finding data on the new platform if you were a client of the QS Analytics Sustainability Tracker.
Analytics clients will continue to be able to access the current trackers on the QS Analytics Platform until June 2026, but the next World University Rankings Data will be available only on the new platform HolonIQ.
Content Structure Changes
The QS HolonIQ platform is a complete redesign of the experience, not just a replica of the old platform.
The structure of the data has changed and the content is now organised in Reports, which you can navigate using the Report bar near the top left of the screen:
The table below summarises in which reports you can find the data from Analytics dashboards.
Analytics Sustainability Tracker Feature/Report | HolonIQ Location/Terminology |
Homepage | Highlights, Indicators, Heatmap Reports (Indicator level) |
Research Impact | Indicators, Heatmap Reports (Metrics level) |
Rankings Data | Analytics Report - Scatter Plot, Heatmap |
Categories | - |
Survey insights | - |
Indicators and metrics in Rankings Datasets
The Data on the QS HolonIQ platform is organised on multiple levels:
Indicator level data (displaying ranks, scores, percentiles)
Metric level data (displaying the actual values of underlying data, such as counts, ratios, FTEs, as well as sub-indicator data)
The QS Sustainability Rankings Dataset will display Metric level data only for institutions from the Master Peer List, but you can continue to see Indicator level data for all the ranked institutions and for the QS lists.
Indicator level Metric level
How to locate different types of Sustainability Rankings data
Data Need | Location on the QS HolonIQ Platform |
Overall data or summary data | Highlights Report |
Indicators or metrics level data | Indicator Report |
Specific values from a certain year (e.g., 2024, Sustainable Research-Climate Action- Total Papers) | Heatmap (Analytics Reports) |
Side-by-side comparison indicator values, multiple institutions | Benchmark Reports |
Side-by-side metric-level values, multiple institutions | Heatmap |
Evolution over time: single institution | Highlights / Indicator Report |
Evolution over time: multiple institutions | Heatmap |