National Taiwan University (NTU) retained its edge over universities across the Taiwan Strait in the 2008 Academic Ranking of World Universities released this month.
NTU ranked 164th among the top 500 world universities ranked by the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University this year.
CHINESE SCHOOLS
As last year, NTU enjoyed the best ranking among all the universities in Taiwan and China in the report released on Aug. 15. Hong Kong’s Chinese University and University of Science and Technology, and China’s Nanjing University and Peking University came in 236th, 296th, 292nd and 240th respectively.
Other Taiwanese schools that placed in the top 500 included National Tsing Hua University, which ranked 309th, National Chiao Tung University, which came in 322nd and National Cheng Kung University, which ranked 351st.
The institution that ranked highest in all categories was Harvard University.
ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
NTU was also listed as one of the Top 100 Asia-Pacific universities in the report after Tokyo University, Kyoto University, Australia National University, Osaka University and the University of Melbourne.
US schools accounted for 31.6 percent of the top 500 universities, while British, German and Japanese universities each accounted for between 6 percent and 8 percent of the list.
The 500 universities in the lineup were graded according to the number “alumni and staff winning Nobel Prizes and Fields Medals, highly cited researchers, articles published in [the] academic journals Nature and Science, articles indexed in major citation indices and the per capita academic performance of an institution,” Jiao Tong University said in the report.
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