Top Asian universities for 2011-12

By Lin Liyao
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California Institute of Technology has been ranked the world's best university for 2011-2012 in a list published in the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine in early October. It is the first time that CIT has outranked Harvard University on the list, as the latter slipped to joint-second with Stanford after having topped the list since 2004.

Top Asian universities for 2011-12

the best three universities in Asia for 2011-12 

In order to capture the full range of university activities across the globe, the rankings employ 13 separate performance indicators which are grouped into five headline categories: teaching — the learning environment (worth 30 percent of the overall ranking score), research — volume, income and reputation (worth 30 percent), citations — research influence (worth 30 percent), industry income — innovation (worth 2.5 percent) and international outlook — staff, students and research (worth 7.5 percent).

Apart from an overall ranking of the world's top 400 universities, the magazine also lists the best universities by region and subject.

• Full list: Top 400 universities in the world 2011-12

• Top universities by region: Europe, North America

The following are the Times Higher Education magazine's top Asian universities for 2011-12:

Rank

World Rank

Institution

Country / Region

Overall Score

1

30

University of Tokyo

Japan

74.3

2

34

University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

72.3

3

40

National University of Singapore

Singapore

70.9

4

49

Peking University

Chinese mainland

65.6

5

52

Kyoto University

Japan

64.8

6

53

Pohang University of Science and Technology

Republic of Korea

64.6

7

62

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hong Kong

61.7

8

71

Tsinghua University

Chinese mainland

59.5

9

94

Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Republic of Korea

54.5

10

108

Tokyo Institute of Technology

Japan

52.8

11

119

Osaka University

Japan

51

12

120

Tohoku University

Japan

50.8

13

121

Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Israel

50.4

14

124

Seoul National University

Republic of Korea

50.1

15

151

Chinese University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

46.6

16

154

National Taiwan University

Taiwan, China

46.2

17

166

Tel Aviv University

Israel

45.4

18

169

Nanyang Technological University

Singapore

45

19

192

University of Science and Technology of China

Chinese mainland

42.7

20

193

City University of Hong Kong

Hong Kong, China

42.6

 
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