Register your interest for QS Africa Forum 2026
What is the QS Africa Forum 2026?
Connect, collaborate, and elevate your institution at Africa's premier higher education event. Secure your place for 2026!
Are you seeking to expand your institution's global reach, forge impactful academic partnerships, and attract top talent from across Africa and beyond?
The QS Africa Forum 2026 is your essential platform. Designed for universities, business schools, and higher education leaders, this forum provides unparalleled opportunities to grow your network, showcase your institution, and align with QS's mission to enhance global education. Register your interest now for 2026 to ensure you don't miss out on shaping the future of higher education in Africa.
Why register for QS Africa Forum 2026?
Q1: What is the QS Africa Forum 2026?
The QS Africa Forum 2026 is a flagship event bringing together 500 leading academics, university leaders, policy makers, and industry professionals from African institutions and around the world. It is meticulously designed by QS Quacquarelli Symonds to foster collaboration, share best practices, and drive strategic partnerships within the global higher education landscape, with a specific focus on the dynamic African continent.
Q2: What are the benefits of attending the QS Africa Forum 2026?
- Expand your global network: Connect directly with a diverse and established community of universities and business schools from the African region and internationally. Build valuable, lasting relationships that transcend borders.
- Increase institutional visibility: Showcase your institution's strengths, programs, and research to a highly targeted audience through dedicated partnership opportunities. Elevate your brand's presence at a globally recognized QS event.
- Discover strategic partnerships: Identify and initiate collaborations in areas such as student recruitment, research initiatives, faculty exchange programs, and curriculum development.
- Access cutting-edge insights: Engage in discussions on critical trends, challenges, and innovations shaping higher education in Africa, including advancements in digital learning, internationalization strategies, and talent development.
- Enhance data-driven decisions: Gain insights that support your strategic planning, student recruitment efforts, and overall institutional growth, aligning with our goal to enhance lead qualification and data management.
This forum is ideal for university presidents, vice-chancellors, deans, directors of international relations, admissions teams, marketing professionals, and anyone involved in the strategic development and global outreach of higher education institutions, particularly those with a focus on the African continent.
Watch the recordings from QS Africa Forum 2025 here.
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"QS conferences amaze me with the quality of speakers and the thought-provoking conversations. For me, as the Sr. Strategic Partnerships Director, each conference I attended brought high-quality University partnership opportunities. At each conference, I learned the new trends in higher education at a local/regional level that helped me position Wharton Interactive globally."
Levent Yarar, Senior Strategic Partnership Director, Wharton Interactive
‘’Sponsoring the Reimagine Education Awards proved to be a great opportunity for Ajman University. We were able to meet and greet the educators behind so many innovative projects and from so many extraordinary institutions. We left a lasting impression on them as well, by offering targeted promotional material about AU at our table. We left Reimagine Education with the potential for a slew of new partnerships. We’ll be back next year!’’
Ajman University, Reimagine Education Sponsor
We sponsored the 2022 QS Higher Ed Summit: Middle East & Africa and EduData Summit. The participation has boosted the University branding at the region level. Attending these conferences acted as a facilitator in connecting with academics and different institutions around the world.
Dr. Waleed Khalid Al Rajhi, Dean of Planning and Quality, University of Nizwa
Attending the conference helped our institution achieve its reputation goals through reaching out to quality audiences and form valuable partnership for research and innovation, which further helped with international collaboration and sponsorship in benefiting the staff and students of JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research exposure to new audiences.
Dr. Surinder Singh, Vice Chancellor, JSS Academy of Higher Education & Research
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