National Taiwan University (NTU) was ranked in the 126-150 band in the Times Higher Education (THE) World Reputation Rankings 2023 released on Tuesday, falling for a third consecutive year.
In the 2020 rankings, NTU took the 40th spot, improving significantly from the 51-60 band the previous year in its best ranking in past five years, THE data showed.
However, since then the university’s ranking has dropped continuously, falling into the 61-70 band in 2021 and the 91-100 band in 2022.
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The list does not assign specific rankings to universities ranked outside the top 50.
In 2020, three other Taiwanese universities were also listed in the rankings for the first time: National Cheng Kung University, National Tsing Hua University and National Chiao Tung University. They were ranked in the 151-175 band.
In the last year’s rankings, only NTU made it to the list of the world’s top 200 universities by reputation.
Universities in Taiwan have made improvements in citation impact and international coauthorship — two of the main indicators — since 2018, THE said.
Meanwhile, while improving research quality and developing international cooperation help to enhance a university’s reputation, there is still ample room for Taiwanese universities to make improvements in these two indicators, it said.
Taiwanese universities have seen their scores in the research and teaching reputation indicators decline slightly since 2021. Despite this, the universities’ performances in patents have been higher than the global average, THE said.
Harvard University topped the latest rankings, followed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford University respectively.
The top 10 is rounded out by the UK’s University of Oxford and University of Cambridge; the US’ University of California, Berkeley and Princeton University; China’s Tsinghua University; the US’ Yale University; and the University of Tokyo in Japan.
Harvard University retained its top spot for the 13th consecutive year, while MIT placed second for the eighth year in a row.
The rankings list the globe’s top 200 most prestigious universities as judged by academics worldwide.
Last year’s survey received responses from a record 38,796 academics from 166 countries and regions.
The academics were asked to name, at most, 15 universities they believe are the best in research and teaching in their field.
The US has the largest number of universities in the top 200 rankings with 52, followed by the UK with 20, China with 15, Germany with 14 and Japan with 10.
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