National Taiwan University saw its standing improve one place to 20th from the year before in the 2012 Asian university rankings released by higher education information provider QS on Monday.
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology maintained its No. 1 position, according to the annual survey, which QS has conducted since 2009.
Ben Sowter, head of the QS Intelligence Unit, said that of the 31 Taiwanese universities that made into the top 300, 21 had moved up in the rankings.
“Taiwan is presenting a good picture,” he said.
The highest-rated Taiwanese universities were National Taiwan University (20th), National Tsing Hua University (31st, unchanged from last year) and National Cheng Kung University (37th, down five notches).
The National University of Singapore and the University of Hong Kong ranked second and third.
Following the top three Taiwanese universities listed were: National Chiao Tung University (49th, up three places), National Yang Ming University (50th, down 10 places), National Central University (53rd, six spots up), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (54th, up eight spots) and Sun Yat-sen University (60th, up 10 places).
Rounding out the top 10 Asian universities were Seoul National University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, Pohang University of Science and Technology and Kyoto University.
Six indicators were used to determine the rankings: academic reputation, employer reputation, citations per faculty from SciVerse Scopus, faculty-student ratio, proportion of international students and proportion of international faculty.
Others in the top 100 were Taipei Medical University (64th, up 25 notches), National Taiwan Normal University (87th, up from 104th) and Chang Gung University (92nd, down three notches).
Taipei and New Taipei City government officials are aiming to have the first phase of the Wanhua-Jungho-Shulin Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) line completed and opened by 2027, following the arrival of the first train set yesterday. The 22km-long Light Green Line would connect four densely populated districts in Taipei and New Taipei City: Wanhua (萬華), Jhonghe (中和), Tucheng (土城) and Shulin (樹林). The first phase of the project would connect Wanhua and Jhonghe districts, with Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall and Chukuang (莒光) being the terminal stations. The two municipalities jointly hosted a ceremony for the first train to be used
MILITARY AID: Taiwan has received a first batch of US long-range tactical missiles ahead of schedule, with a second shipment expected to be delivered by 2026 The US’ early delivery of long-range tactical ballistic missiles to Taiwan last month carries political and strategic significance, a military source said yesterday. According to the Ministry of National Defense’s budget report, the batch of military hardware from the US, including 11 sets of M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and 64 MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems, had been scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan between the end of this year and the beginning of next year. However, the first batch arrived last month, earlier than scheduled, with the second batch —18 sets of HIMARS, 20 MGM-140 missiles and 864 M30
Representative to the US Alexander Yui delivered a letter from the government to US president-elect Donald Trump during a meeting with a former Trump administration official, CNN reported yesterday. Yui on Thursday met with former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien over a private lunch in Salt Lake City, Utah, with US Representative Chris Stewart, the Web site of the US cable news channel reported, citing three sources familiar with the matter. “During that lunch the letter was passed along, and then shared with Trump, two of the sources said,” CNN said. O’Brien declined to comment on the lunch, as did the Taipei
A woman who allegedly attacked a high-school student with a utility knife, injuring his face, on a Taipei metro train late on Friday has been transferred to prosecutors, police said yesterday. The incident occurred near MRT Xinpu Station at about 10:17pm on a Bannan Line train headed toward Dingpu, New Taipei City police said. Before police arrived at the station to arrest the suspect, a woman surnamed Wang (王) who is in her early 40s, she had already been subdued by four male passengers, one of whom was an off-duty Taipei police officer, police said. The student, 17, who sustained a cut about