Recently, a picture circulated in the circle of friends. In the world's university engineering ranking, Tsinghua ranked first, surpassing MIT . Many people are talking about it.
I checked it and this picture is true. This is the ranking of US News2021, which is the ranking last year.
In the rankings in 2022, Tsinghua University still ranks first; Nanyang Technological University surpassed MIT, ranking second; Harbin Institute of Technology , Huazhong University of Science and Technology , Shanghai Jiaotong University , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , Zhejiang University , Southeast University , Tongji University , Xi'an Jiaotong University , Hong Kong City University ranked 5th, 9th to 13, 15th to 16th and 19th respectively. Among the top 20, there are 10 universities in China and 8 universities in mainland China.
Many people can’t believe it. MIT has produced 97 winners of the Nobel Prize and 27 winners of the Turing Award . How could Tsinghua’s ranking surpass MIT? There is a misunderstanding here at
. "World University Engineering Ranking" is translated from English. The original English text of "Engineering" is engineering, which means engineering. English refers to the ranking of university engineering disciplines, not the comprehensive ranking of engineering universities that everyone understands.
US News' ranking algorithm mainly includes the following indicators: global academic reputation (12.5%), regional academic reputation (12.5%), paper publication (12.5%), paper citation quality (10%), literature citation volume (10%), high-quality paper citation volume (12.5%), high-quality citation ratio (10%), international cooperative research (10%), professor doctoral number (5%), and doctoral degree awards (5%).
According to these data, Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology , Huazhong University of Technology are all famous engineering universities in China, that is, the entire university is basically engineering major. Compared with a college in a prestigious European and American university, our university certainly has the advantage and there is no problem in ranking ahead.
A engineering professor at Tsinghua looked at this form and thought that Tsinghua University ranked first, because Tsinghua University is very comprehensive in engineering majors, and there are about 10 of them that can ranked first in China. Judging from the fourth round of subject evaluation, Tsinghua has a total of 21 A+ disciplines, and 11 are engineering majors. As a manufacturing power, the world's second largest economy, and the world's largest number of doctoral students, the engineering majors of China's engineering schools can indeed be proud of the world.
Singapore Nanyang Technological University ranks second. As the name suggests, the University of Science and Technology has a very strong discipline in science and engineering. Nanyang Technological University's School of Engineering is the largest engineering college in the world, including 6 sub-colleges: Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering College, Civil and Environmental Engineering College, Computer Engineering College, Electrical and Electronic Engineering College, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering College, and Materials Science and Engineering College. Among them, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering includes 3,000 undergraduate students and 1,000 graduate students, which is very large in scale and ranks second in the world. In the materials discipline, Nanyang Technological University ranks first.
However, the rankings of US News are just a ranking of private institutions, so don’t pay too much attention to it. Sometimes it does not reflect the true level of the school. If the school wants to intentionally improve its ranking, there are many operational methods.
For example, Singapore universities, in my opinion, ranks relatively high. The reason is very simple. Singapore is a small country, an international transportation hub and financial center. It has a high reputation and has a lot of cooperation with countries around the world, which has a certain advantage in the selection.
In the fourth round of discipline evaluation and the first round of double first-class evaluation, some of the indicators adopted were similar to those of these rankings. Some domestic universities have put in some efforts to publish papers and citations, and many Chinese universities have improved their rankings on the world university rankings. Some schools even used too much force and made some jokes. For example, in 2021, the mathematics subject of Qufu Normal University ranks 19th in the world and ranked first in China, surpassing Peking University , becoming a hot topic of public opinion back then.
Your body and reputation are destroyed, and you will not abandon Yangtze River eternal flow.The rankings will eventually pass by the wind, and a truly outstanding university will be an eternal monument. This is the pursuit of university.
