QS World University rankings is the annual World University Rankings published by quacquarelli Symonds, an international education market consulting company in the UK. QS initially cooperated with times higher education (the for short) to jointly launch the "the-qs World University Ranking", which was first published in 2004, which is a relatively early global university ranking; since 2010, QS and the end of cooperation, both began to publish their respective world university rankings. QS Global Education Group will update its ranking every summer.