Top Asian universities for 2011-12
- By Lin Liyao
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China.org.cn, October 12, 2011
California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.
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the best three universities in Asia for 2011-12 |
Apart from an overall ranking of the world's top 400 universities, the magazine also lists the best universities by region and subject.
? Full list: Top 400 universities in the world 2011-12
? Top universities by region: Europe, North America
The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top Asian universities for 2011-12:
|
Rank |
World Rank |
Institution |
Country / Region |
Overall Score |
|
1 |
30 |
University of Tokyo |
Japan |
74.3 |
|
2 |
34 |
University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong, China |
72.3 |
|
3 |
40 |
National University of Singapore |
Singapore |
70.9 |
|
4 |
49 |
Peking University |
Chinese mainland |
65.6 |
|
5 |
52 |
Kyoto University |
Japan |
64.8 |
|
6 |
53 |
Pohang University of Science and Technology |
Republic of Korea |
64.6 |
|
7 |
62 |
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology |
Hong Kong |
61.7 |
|
8 |
71 |
Tsinghua University |
Chinese mainland |
59.5 |
|
9 |
94 |
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology |
Republic of Korea |
54.5 |
|
10 |
108 |
Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Japan |
52.8 |
|
11 |
119 |
Osaka University |
Japan |
51 |
|
12 |
120 |
Tohoku University |
Japan |
50.8 |
|
13 |
121 |
Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Israel |
50.4 |
|
14 |
124 |
Seoul National University |
Republic of Korea |
50.1 |
|
15 |
151 |
Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong, China |
46.6 |
|
16 |
154 |
National Taiwan University |
Taiwan, China |
46.2 |
|
17 |
166 |
Tel Aviv University |
Israel |
45.4 |
|
18 |
169 |
Nanyang Technological University |
Singapore |
45 |
|
19 |
192 |
University of Science and Technology of China |
Chinese mainland |
42.7 |
|
20 |
193 |
City University of Hong Kong |
Hong Kong, China |
42.6 |
