The Times Higher Education (THE) released the 2022 World University Rankings at 7 a.m. Beijing time on September 2, 2021. THE declares that the Times World University Rankings is the only global performance table in the world that judges all core tasks of research-intensive universities, including teaching, scientific research, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Using 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators, the list provides the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, and is trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and government.
This year's ranking includes 1,662 universities from 99 countries and regions around the world, setting a record high for this ranking. Let’s take a look at how Kyoto University in Japan performs?
Kyoto University THE2022 World University Ranking
Kyoto University in Japan performed well, Japan ranked second, and ranked 61st in the world! However, compared with last year, it has dropped by 7 places!
Other rankings of Kyoto University
Kyoto University ranks 33rd in the world in the 2022QS world university rankings; in the 2018 and 2019 Times Higher Education Japanese University Rankings, it ranked 1st in Japan; in the 2019 world university academic rankings, 32nd in the world, 2nd in Japan, and 21st in the world in both natural sciences and life sciences.
Kyoto University
Kyoto University, referred to as "Kyoto University", is a comprehensive research university in Japan. Its headquarters is located in Zuokyo District, Kyoto City, Japan. It is a member of the East Asian Research University Association, a top university in the Program Class A of the Super International University Program of the Ministry of Literature and Science of Japan and a designated national university.
Kyoto University has many first-class scientific research institutions such as the iPS Cell Research Institute of Kyoto University, the RIMS Number Analysis Research Institute, and the Kyoto University Disaster Prevention Research Institute. As one of the highest institutions in Japan, Kyoto University enjoys a high reputation around the world and is known as the "cradle of scientists".
Although Kyoto University and the University of Tokyo are national universities that are as famous as the east and west of Japan, their traditions and school goals are very different. Dongda University mainly cultivates talents in governing the country; Peking University is good at cultivating scientists. Therefore, although Kyoto University has only produced two prime ministers, Fumiko Komsui and Yuto Ikeda, and few famous scientists are active in Japanese politics, there are many talents and achievements in scientific research, so it is called the "cradle of scientists." It is particularly proud that in the 39 years from 1949 to 1987, the seven winners of Japan's Nobel Prize winners accounted for 4 (some people say it was four and a half, one of whom was transferred to the University of Tokyo after studying at Kyoto University): Hideki Yukawa, Shinichiro Asanaga, Kenichi Fukui, and Jinkawa Rionegawa, more than the University of Tokyo. There are countless awards for winning the Japanese Medal of Culture, the Japanese Academy of Sciences and other aspects. The achievements of these achievements are inseparable from its excellent traditions.
Beijing University has had a tradition of focusing on theory over literature since its founding, and science has a clear advantage in the school's academic departments, research institutes, teaching and scientific research centers. He has always paid attention to high academic standards, especially for science, and has formed the "Kyoto School" with its free and distinctive characteristics. People once described the "Kyoto School" like this: Scholars and professors at Kyoto University are "very persistent in theoretical research. Even in ordinary people's eyes, professors at Kyoto University will still be interested. As long as they conform to academic principles, they will do it without hesitation." According to the editor of Yunxue Education Technology Group, this school was first initiated by the famous philosopher Nishida Kitaro of the Kyoto University Literature School, as well as his disciples Tanabe Moto, Miki Kiyoshi and others. The original meaning was that they had unique insights into the study of Japanese philosophy. Later, the Japanese academic community was extended to a group of people who graduated from Kyoto University who "don't ask about reality, but just seek knowledge." It is their "interest" and "persistence" that make Kyoto University a cradle for scientists.
The characteristics of Kyoto University can also be fully seen from the organizational setting and scientific research organization.There are many research institutes and centers that are unique in the country. Advanced instruments and equipment and excellent research environment have prepared unique conditions for scientific research. Researchers are in a good way, so they have a great influence in Japan in terms of research topics and research results. This can not only be reflected in the aforementioned institutions with exclusiveness and uniqueness, but also some research facilities are also eye-catching.
