National Taiwan University (NTU) has moved up six spots to reach 76th in the latest world university rankings released by a British education network.
NTU remained the only Taiwanese school to be listed among the top 100 in the 2014/2015 QS World University Rankings compiled by the QS education network.
Other Taiwanese universities in the top 400 were National Tsing Hua University (167th), National Chiao Tung University (202nd), National Cheng Kung University (232nd), National Yang Ming University (256th), Taiwan University of Science and Technology (371st) and Taipei Medical University (379th).
The top 400 schools were ranked individually in the survey, but the rest were bunched together and not given specific rankings.
National Central University placed between 401st and 410th, National Taiwan Normal University between 411th and 420th, and National Sun Yat-sen University and Chang Gung University between 431st and 440th.
The QS rankings are based on four key pillars: research, teaching, employability and internationalization.
Six indicators are used to assess performance — academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty-to-student ratio, citations per faculty, proportion of international students and proportion of international faculty.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology retained its top spot in the rankings, followed by the University of Cambridge and Imperial College London.
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