Kyoto University (Kyoto, Japan)

Kyoto University [baike.baidu.com]

World rank: 52

Reputation rank: 20

Overall Reputation score: 15.9

Reputation for teaching: 15.2

Reputation for research: 16.3

Japan's first Nobel laureate, Kyoto alumnus Hideki Yukawa, won the prize for physics in 1949, two years after the university gained its current name: since then there have been four more prizewinners from Kyoto's ranks. Its three campuses accommodate some 27,700 students and a faculty of around 2,900.