The ranking released today by Quacquarelli Symonds, a British organization specializing in education and studying abroad, lists the top 200 universities and colleges in the world. What is QS World University Rankings? The QS World University Rankings are based on four key pillars, research, teaching, employability and internationalization and the methodology consists of academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty/student ratio, citations per faculty, international students, and international faculty. Currently there are four versions of such lists regarding top world universities: QS World University Rankings, Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), US News Best Clobal Universities and Times World University Rankings. The Overview of the List Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was at the top of the ranking, while Harvard University took up the second place and the University of Cambridge shares the third place with Stanford University. For Asian universities, National University of Singapore ranks the 12th of the ranking, also the top place among all the Asian universities, while Nanyang Technological University, also in Singapore, ranks the 13th. Those are the only two Asian universities ranking in the top 20. How are Chinese Universities Doing? For Chinese universities, there are 7 Chinese mainland universities ranking among the top 200, with 4 of them ranking among the top 100. They’re Tsinghua University at 25th, Peking University at 41st, Fudan University at 51st, Shanghai Jiaotong University at 70th, Zhejiang University at 110th, University of Science and Technology of China at 113th, and Nanjing University at 130th. Tsinghua University ranks the 25th among the whole list for the first time and the 3rd among all Asian academies. It’s the first time that a Chinese mainland university ranks in the top 25 since 2006. Specifically, Peking University has both the best academic and employer reputation among all the Chinese academies on the list. Peking University also scores more points on international students and faculty ratio than Tsinghua University, but less points on faculty/student ratio and citations per faculty. As far as 'citations per faculty’ are concerned, the University of Science and Technology of China performed the best among all Chinese universities, with Nanjing University and Tsinghua University ranking the 2nd and 3rd place. The list shows that Chinese universities still need improvement on 'faculty/student ratio’, 'international students’ ratio’ and 'international faculty ratio’. |
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