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The Times Higher Education Supplement has issued its 2006 report for the world’s university rankings this week, so it’s a good opportunity to update the "Top Universities in Asia 2006" list and discuss Asian academics.
Times Higher continues to show its appreciation for the Asian universities as the Asian universities continue to climb the rankings. Here’s the list of the top university in every country (name; Asian ranking ; 2006 world ranking ; 2005 world ranking ; up/down) :
- Beijing University, China – 1 ; 14 ; 15 ; up.
- Tokyo University, Japan – 2 ; 19 ; 16 ; down.
- National University of Singapore – 3 ; 19 ; 22 ; up.
- Hong Kong University – 8 ; 33 ; 41 ; up.
- Indian Institute of Technology – 15 ; 40 ; 57 ; up.
- Seoul National University, S.Korea – 18 ; 63 ; 93 ; up.
- National University of Taiwan – 25 ; 108 ; 114 ; up.
- Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel - 29 ; 119 ; 77 ; down.
- Chulalongkorn University Thailand – 41 ; 161 ; 121 ; down.
- Univ Kebangsaan Malaysia – 48 ; 185 ; 289 ; up.
Most Asian universities on the list have gained better rankings compared to last year. The Times concludes :
Is Asia emerging as a rival to the US and Europe as home to the world’s top universities? The first three years of the World University Rankings provide a mixed response to this complex question. In each of the three years, Asian institutions have impressed in the rankings.[...]
Japan musters 11 universities in the rankings, perhaps not an impressive total for the world’s second largest economy and one of the most high-technology countries in the world.
Beijing University’s status in the top 20 seems stable. [...] China has ten entries in the top 200, including four from Hong Kong. By contrast, India, the next most populous nation, manages only three.
Elsewhere in Asia, several ambitious countries show up only modestly in our rankings. The exception (see box) is Singapore, whose national university comes in at 19. It is accompanied by Nanyang Technological University in position 61. However, Taiwan and Thailand manage only one university each in our rankings and Malaysia two, both modestly placed.
I’d be interested in talking to foreigners who go to study in Asia and get a feel of their thoughts about the academy in Asia. From the few interactions that I’ve had with Japanese and Taiwanese professors, comparing to the western academy that I’ve come to know, I’d say they are alot more focused on internal research than the international forum, a good indicator for that being the amount of English papers written. Very few Israelis would ever think writing something in Hebrew, but most papers I was interested in which were written in Asian universities turned out to be in the local language – Japanese and Chinese.
For more information on Times’ methodology and other statistics, visit their website.
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Joop | November 5th, 2007 at 1:19 am #
Thank you for lisitng the top asian universites form thes. This is good information. I love to see what the measurements for the universities are.
Xongwen | September 24th, 2008 at 12:00 am #
This ranking is a joke. Notables:
1. Where is Tsinghua?
2. Ranking University of Hong Kong above the Hong Kong University of Science & Tech is silly. UoHK may offer a broader set of majors (e.g., medicine and law) but for whatever is offered at HKUST, including engineering, economics, and business, HKUST is undisputed no.1.
3. IIT from India is a “university”? WTF? It’s a tech institute. In terms of universities, Mumbai, Delhi and Allahabad are the most prestigious. But India follows a British style of college-led education. The leading colleges will make for a better ranking than a lumpsum of “universities” in the Indian context.
…and so on. This is about as much of a joke as the other post on this website about Asia 2007 rankings.
Fili | September 24th, 2008 at 1:27 pm #
xongwen –
1. Saying a ranking is a joke is a bit useless unless you have a different suggestion on how to rank. Their methodology is not perfect but it makes sense to me.
2. They have more specific rankings for specific majors. If you’d bother taking the 2 minutes to look at the link provided you’d see the differences between the general rankings and the technical ones.
3. It’s considered an academic institute, so it’s there. It ranks above others because it performs better one their suggested index. You don’t like it? think it’s a joke – suggest a different one. All I do is summaries all the rankings available. Together, they can give prospect students and scholars some general idea about a university, especially in a faraway place like Asia.
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the top university of engineering is Pulchowk engineering campus,Nepal