Singapore still reigns supreme in 2018 as NUS tops THE ranking
The National University of Singapore has again topped the Times Higher Education Asia Rankings, for a third consecutive year. Elsewhere, HEIs in the Gulf top internationalisation stats.
The National University of Singapore has again topped the Times Higher Education Asia Rankings, for a third consecutive year. Elsewhere, HEIs in the Gulf top internationalisation stats.
The Chinese government has announced plans to have 42 top universities included in top rankings by 2050, following similar moves in the 1990’s.
Stanford University has been named the best university in the world for graduate employability, according to this year’s QS employability rankings, as universities from eight different countries make the top 20.
UK universities have slipped slightly in the QS World University Rankings, which could be down to uncertainty over Brexit, the ranking’s authors have said.
Paris is the top city in the world for students for the second year running, followed by London and Singapore, according to the QS Best Student Cities index. The team behind the QS World University Rankings has compiled the index based on the cities' university rankings, student mix, quality of living and affordability.
One of the world’s most prominent league table for universities – QS World University Rankings – has been chosen by intelligence analyst firm Interfax group to rank universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) and publish findings as QS University Rankings: BRICS.
Asia’s best universities have seen a surge in international students since 2008 as they upscale and gain ground on their Western rivals, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) says. The firm's Asian university rankings 2013, released last week, show fast rising Asian economies have made "unprecedented investment" in HE enabling them to "attract the world’s best faculty and students".
Brazil has again dominated the QS Latin American university rankings, with a total of 81 institutions in the top 300 and Universidade de Sao Paolo (USP) taking the top spot for the third year in a row. QS said that the rankings showed the growing importance of Latin HE on the world stage but that resistance to English-taught programmes hindered universities' competitiveness.