The QS rankings should not be confused with the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. From 2004 to 2009 the QS rankings were published in collaboration with "Times Higher Education" and were known as the Times Higher Education-QS World University Rankings. In 2010 QS assumed sole publication of rankings produced with this methodology when "Times Higher Education" split from QS in order to create a new rankings methodology in partnership with Thomson Reuters. The QS rankings were previously published in the United States by "U.S. News & World Report" as the "World's Best Universities." However, in 2014, the "U.S. News & World Report" launched their own international university ranking titled "Best Global Universities". The inaugural ranking was published in October 2014.