topuniversities.com
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Business details
- Sells
- Digital services
- Licensed trade
- No licence normally needed
- Domain age
- 24 years
- Email address
- Not found
- Phone number
- +44 20 7284 7200
- Contact page
- topuniversities.com/
contact-us - Website
- topuniversities.com
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints
Summary
Is topuniversities.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 61 out of 100, mixed truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: mixed. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.
topuniversities.com's website address was registered 24 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 1 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.0 stars out of 5. We could not find a matching registered company or an email address.
Positives
- Its website address was registered 24 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Be cautious
- A low number of independent reviews (1 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.0 stars out of 5.
Not found
- Company details information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
What they offer
Discover the best universities worldwide - study abroad guides, upcoming events, scholarships, careers advice & latest QS rankings at TopUniversities to find your perfect University.
Latest YouTube video
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How to check if topuniversities.com is legit
To check if topuniversities.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about topuniversities.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsNo data found from the sources checked.
- Where the company is based
- Not stated with its address
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 24 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 24 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 4 of its pages: contact, about, terms and privacy
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- +44 20 7284 7200
- Contact page found
- Yes
- Hosting company
- Cloudflare, Inc.
- In their own words
- “QS TopUniversities is the student-facing university discovery and decision platform of QS Quacquarelli Symonds, a global higher education organisation known for its university rankings, research and insights. Through TopUniversities.com, prospective students can explore careers, discover subjects, compare universities, research study destinations, find scholarships, meet universities at events and access personalised application support. Bringing together the QS World University Rankings, university and programme information, QS Career Match, QS TopUniversities Events and QS TopUniversities Apply, we help students make informed decisions about their future education.”
- Who you're buying from
- “QS is registered in England and Wales under company number 02563879.”
Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool
Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.
All allowed
- Google Search
- Allowed by defaultGooglebot
- Bing
- Allowed by defaultBingbot
All allowed
- OpenAI
- Allowed by defaultGPTBot
- Anthropic
- Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
- Google AI
- Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
- Apple AI
- Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
- Common Crawl
- Allowed by defaultCCBot
- Meta
- Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
- ByteDance (TikTok)
- Allowed by defaultBytespider
All allowed
- ChatGPT search
- Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT
- Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
- Claude search
- Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
- Claude
- Allowed by defaultClaude-User
- Perplexity
- Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsRated 2.0 stars out of 5 from 1 reviews on SmartCustomer
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| SmartCustomer | 2.0 out of 5 stars | 1 |
| Total | 3.3 out of 5 stars | 1 |
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 50,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 50,000 sites
Share of people looking up topuniversities.com, by country, over the last 2 days.
- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen
- 1United States35.7%
- 2United Kingdom16.3%
- 3Singapore14.0%
- 4Brazil5.4%
- 5Germany4.7%
- 6Austria2.3%
- 7Japan2.3%
- 8Vietnam1.6%
- 9Hong Kong1.6%
- 10Indonesia1.6%
Top 10 of 27 countries.
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 26 years ago
- Website archive history
- 26 years
Social presenceIt is on 5 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 316,093 followers on Facebook
YouTube Data496 views a video, 74 views a day and a new video every 6.7 days
- Views per video371,598 views ÷ 749 videos
- 496
- Views a day371,598 views ÷ 5,026 days
- 74
- Views per subscriber371,598 views ÷ 36,900 subscribers
- 10
- New subscribers a day36,900 subscribers ÷ 5,026 days
- 7
- Subscribers per 1,000 views36,900 subscribers ÷ 371,598 views × 1,000
- 99.3
- Subscribers per video36,900 subscribers ÷ 749 videos
- 49
- Days between videos5,026 days ÷ 749 videos
- 6.7
- Channel age7 February 2013 to 12 November 2026
- 13 years 9 months
- Subscribers
- 36,900
- Views
- 371,598
- Videos
- 749
- Started
- 7 February 2013
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- Not stated
- Topics
- Knowledge, Lifestyle
- Made for children
- No
- Website in its description
- Not stated
- Trailer
- Yes
What data this site collects about you
What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
- May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
- “We do use profiling, for example to personalise our marketing and to prioritise enquiries.”
- Says how long it keeps your data.
- “We keep sponsor attendee registration details for five years and delegate marketing details until you unsubscribe.”
- Has a data protection officer you can contact.
- “Our QS Group Privacy Office acts as our encarregado (data protection officer) and can be contacted at [email protected] .”privacy
@qs.com
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Google Ads, Meta Pixel and TikTok Pixel
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Analytics
- Counts your visits and what you look at.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
- Google Ads
- Tracks what you do to show you Google adverts.
- Meta Pixel
- Tells Facebook and Instagram what you do on its site, for adverts.
- TikTok Pixel
- Tells TikTok what you do on its site, for adverts.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None found
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
- Known data breaches found
- 0
Domain and email securityIts email is only partly protected: mail forged in its name is reported but not blocked
- Its email identifies its real senders, but mail forged in its name is not blocked
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- none
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- Google Trust Services
- Certificate type
- DV
- Certificate expires
- 9 Feb 2027
- Nameservers
- dell.ns.cloudflare.com
max.ns.cloudflare.com - Address
- 104.19.164.15
104.19.165.15
Proof of ownership
What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.
DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
- What we check
- A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
- When we check
- On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
- Points
- 0 of 3 added
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
- When we check
- When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
- When we check
- On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
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