NUS ranks 18 in British survey of 200 universities
By Sandra Davie
THE National University of Singapore has beaten several reputable
institutions, including Cornell and Columbia in the United States,
in a Times of London ranking of the world's 200 best
universities.
NUS, placed No 18, was one of only the three Asian universities
that made the top 20. The other two are Tokyo University and
Beijing University.
American institutions took seven of the top 10 positions, with
Harvard University garnering the No 1 spot.
Nanyang Technological University came in at No 50, ahead of
Britain's Warwick and Bristol universities, and Australia's RMIT
University, Macquarie and Curtin, all popular with Singapore
students heading overseas.
The four-year-old Singapore Management University which specialises
in business was not included, as single-subject institutions were
left out.
The survey, published on Thursday, was a first by the British
newspaper.
Some 1,300 academics in 88 countries participated in the survey
which asked them to name the best institutions in fields they were
knowledgeable about.
The ranking then took into account the amount of cited research
produced by faculty members, the ratio of professors to students
and a university's success in attracting foreign students and
internationally renowned academics.
