National Taiwan University (NTU) was ranked the 70th-best university in the world, up six notches from last year, in the QS World University Rankings released in London on Monday.
The rankings looked at six factors — academic reputation, employer reputation, student-to-faculty ratio, citations per faculty, international faculty ratio and international student ratio.
NTU, which was the only Taiwanese facility ranked in the top 100, had a total score of 75.4, tied with Lund University in Sweden, the University of Nottingham in England and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The score boosted NTU from 76th last year and 82nd in 2013.
The global rankings list was published by British firm Quacquarelli Symonds Ltd, a global information provider of specialized higher-education facilities, and career information and solutions.
Eight other universities in Taiwan were ranked among the top 400.
National Tsing Hua University was ranked 155th, ahead of National Chiao Tung University (182nd), National Cheng Kung University (224th), National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (260th), National Yang Ming University (338th), National Taiwan Normal University (376th), National Sun Yat-sen University (379th) and National Central University (397th).
Among the nine Taiwanese universities in the rankings, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology showed the greatest improvement, rising 111 notches from last year.
National University of Singapore (12th) was the highest-ranked Asian institution, ahead of Nanyang Technological University (13th), also in Singapore.
China’s Tsinghua University was Asia’s third-best university at 25th.
Four Hong Kong universities made the top 100: the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (28th), the University of Hong Kong (30th), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (51st) and City University of Hong Kong (57th).
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