As reported in the ST today, going by the British paper, The Times
Higher Education Supplement (THES) ranking of the world's best 200
universities places NUS tops in Singapore (rank 22 falling from
1
. NTU ranks 48 (up from
50 in 2004). No figures for the other local universities are
published.
The rankings are largely based on measures like the no. of times
research is cited by other academics, staff-to-student ratios and
the no. of students and staff recruited overseas. Both NUS and NTU
faltered in this category of ranking.
In other areas, NUS was ranked 9th-best university in the tech
disciplines (which includes engineering, comp science), 15th in
biomedical sciences and 13th in social sciences. None was mentioned
on NTU.
In the employer review (in which international companies prefer to
recruit from), both fared the same (12 out of 100 points).
However, for NTU, strong scores for international faculty (95
points) and international students (53 points), gave it the edge
over others ranked close by.
As for UNSW, SMU, etc, no comments were published.
So which is best in 5 years time? Who knows?
