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Times Higher Education Revels Asia University Rankings 2016

Times Higher Education, London | Published : 20th June, 2016

The Times Higher Education today publishes the Asia University Rankings 2016, a ranking of the top 200 universities in Asia. Sixteen Indian universities are included in this ranking, with eight in the top 100, led by the Indian Institute of Science in 27th place.

Other Indian universities in the top half of the ranking include the Indian Institutes of Technology in Bombay (43rd), Kharagpur (51st), Delhi (60th), Madras (62nd), Roorkee (65th) and Guwahati (=80th) as well as Jadavpur University in joint 84th place.

Singapore achieves an unprecedented success in these rankings by taking the top two places, with The National University of Singapore in top position and Nanyang Technological University in joint second place.

Phil Baty, Times Higher Education rankings editor says:
"India is the leading South Asian country in the ranking, with 16 universities featuring in the top 200. Its leading institution, the Indian Institute of Science, makes the top 30 for the first time, in 27th place. India has made great gains in this list in recent years - just three institutions appeared in the top 100 in 2013 - but the nation still has a long way to go to compete with Asia's leading university nations, such as China, Japan and South Korea, and scores particularly weakly on internationalisation."

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION ASIA UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016 - INDIA TOP 10

Asia Rank	Institution Name	Country
27	Indian Institute of Science	India
43	Indian Institute of Technology Bombay	India
51	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	India
60	Indian Institute of Technology Delhi	India
62	Indian Institute of Technology Madras	India
65	Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee	India
=80	Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati	India
=84	Jadavpur University	India
101-110	Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur	India
111-120	Panjab University	India

Credit: Times Higher Education
Full results and analysis at: www.timeshighereducation.com

South Asia

The expansion of the THE Asia University Rankings to include 200 institutions is excellent news for South Asia, allowing a greater number of institutions in the region, not just from India, but also from Pakistan and Bangladesh to be recognised and celebrated. However, Asia remains highly competitive for universities.

Phil Baty says:
"It is clear that South Asian institutions are some way behind their counterparts in East Asia, particularly Singapore, China and South Korea, in attaining world-class status, due to a relative lack of funding and an absence of clear government-led drives to put leading universities at the heart of economic growth strategies, which has been a highly successful policy in East Asia. However, the are some positive signs - the Indian government's move to select 20 institutions, across the public and private sector, for special funding and special report, to help them compete on the global stage, is very good news.

"In my 20 years of working in the higher education sector, including seven years as editor of Times Higher Education's gold-standard global rankings, it has never been as clear to me that the balance of power is shifting from the West to the East."

Excellence initiatives

National initiatives designed to promote world-class universities have become commonplace across Asia and are driving up the performance of the continent's universities. Project 985 in China, for example, is designed to turn Peking University and Tsinghua University into "super-elite" institutions, while Project 211 aims to develop 100 key universities and disciplines through targeted funding. Under a new initiative announced last year, China now plans to establish six of its universities in the leading group of global institutions by 2020.

Similar programmes operate in Japan (Global 30), South Korea (World Class University), Taiwan (Higher Education for Excellence and Development Plan for World Class Universities and Research Centers of Excellence) and Singapore (World Class Universities). Hong Kong has also implemented a powerful policy drive to position itself through collaboration, research assessment exercises and a range of key higher education reviews and meanwhile, India has announce plans to develop an excellence initiative to help 20 institutions compete on the world stage.

The methodology for the THE Asia University Rankings uses the same 13 indicators as the World University Rankings but a variation on the weighting between those indicators. Following consultation with universities and higher education bodies across the region, the Asia ranking places less emphasis on reputation elements but places more importance on industry income and research income, and also on productivity, in terms of publications. This is the first time the Asia University Rankings uses a bespoke methodology and means that the ranked list differs from a filter of the World University Rankings for Asian nations.

TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION ASIA UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2016 - TOP 30

Rank	Institution Name	Country/Region
1	National University of Singapore	Singapore
=2	Nanyang Technological University	Singapore
=2	Peking University	China
4	University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
5	Tsinghua University	China
6	Hong Kong University of Science and Technology	Hong Kong
7	University of Tokyo	Japan
8	Pohang University of Science and Technology	Republic of Korea
9	Seoul National University	Republic of Korea
10	Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)	Republic of Korea
11	Kyoto University	Japan
12	Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU)	Republic of Korea
13	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
14	University of Science and Technology of China	China
15	National Taiwan University	Taiwan
16	City University of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
=17	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Israel
=17	Korea University	Republic of Korea
19	Fudan University	China
20	Tel Aviv University	Israel
21	Koç University	Turkey
22	Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Hong Kong
23	Tohoku University	Japan
24	Tokyo Institute of Technology	Japan
25	Zhejiang University	China
26	King Abdulaziz University	Saudi Arabia
27	Indian Institute of Science	India
28	National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (Taiwan Tech)	Taiwan
29	Nanjing University	China
30	Osaka University	Japan