Six Taiwanese universities that ranked among the 100 best universities in Asia last year made the cut again this year, with National Taiwan University (NTU) placing 29th, the UK-based Times Higher Education (THE) said on Thursday.
However, compared with last year’s rankings, NTU dropped eight spots.
Three other Taiwanese universities also saw their rankings fall, while two saw their rankings improve.
Photo: Yang Mien-chieh, Taipei Times
The five were China Medical University (33rd this year, up from 35th last year), Taipei Medical University (43rd, down from 29th), Asia University (49th, up from 78th), Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (85th, down from 44th) and Tsing Hua University (95th, down from 59th).
The top five universities in Asia in the report were China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University, the National University of Singapore, the University of Hong Kong and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.
Rounding out the top 10 were Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the University of Tokyo, and China’s Fudan University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which tied for ninth.
According to the report, the rankings covered 669 universities from 31 nations and territories in Asia, with Japan again leading the list with 117 institutions.
A total of 46 universities in Taiwan were reviewed in this year’s ranking, which used the same 13 performance indicators as the THE’s World University Rankings, though recalibrated to reflect the attributes of Asia’s institutions.
The performance indicators are grouped into five areas, reflecting teaching (the learning environment); research (volume, income and reputation); citations (research influence); international outlook (staff, students and research); and industry income (knowledge transfer).
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