The National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang
Technological University (NTU) have risen in the latest Times
Higher Education World University Rankings released yesterday.
Both have inched two notches higher. NUS is in 22nd
place with the University of Toronto in Canada, while NTU is placed
52nd.
NUS is also ranked as the top Asian university for the
third year running and the only one from Asia in the top 25 this
year.
The Times ranking, one of the most watched university
league tables, uses 13 indicators - including research, knowledge
transfer to industry and international outlook - to assess a
university.
For the second
year in a row, the University of Oxford was tops.
NUS and NTU
have been rising up the rankings since 2012. That year, NUS jumped
11 places to the 29th placing, while NTU improved by 83 places to
be ranked 86th.
1. University of Oxford
2. University of Cambridge
3. California Institute of
Technology
3. Stanford University
5. Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
6. Harvard University
7. Princeton University
8. Imperial College London
9. University of Chicago
10. ETH Zurich
10. University of Pennsylvania
22. National
University of Singapore
52. Nanyang
Technological University
• For the full
list, go to www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2018/world-ranking.
Mr Phil Baty,
editorial director of the Times ranking, said NUS and NTU have
surpassed leading varsities in the United States this year.
NUS has
overtaken Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania, placed at
23rd; NTU has beaten the University of California, Davis.
"While NUS has
risen to become Asia's leading university in recent years, the
26-year-old NTU has leapt a staggering 122 places since 2010-11,
thanks to continued high levels of investment, outstanding research
and a highly international outlook," added Mr Baty.
Singapore's
good showing is part of a wider Asia trend, he said. In a first
under the ranking's current methodology in use since 2011, three
Asian universities are in the top 30 - NUS and China's Peking and
Tsinghua universities, ranked 27th and 30th respectively.
NUS was placed
among the world's top 20 universities in research, teaching and
international outlook. NUS president Tan Chorh Chuan said he is
delighted at NUS' good showing in the rankings and said it will
focus on preparing graduates for the future economy and
strengthening lifelong education.
NTU, which
overtook NUS for the first time in the Quacquarelli Symonds World
University Rankings released in June, said these rankings showed it
is "continuing its upward march globally". NTU had moved up to 11th
place, while NUS fell from 12th to 15th.
NTU president
Bertil Andersson said: "The two league tables demonstrate the high
regard that academics, researchers and industry leaders worldwide
have for NTU, despite the increasingly competitive global higher
education sector."