The British education magazine " Times Higher Education " (THE) released this year's global university rankings on October 12. The highest ranking , the University of Tokyo , fell from 35th last year to 39th, and the second place in Japan, , the Kyoto University , also fell from 61st last year to 68th. Overall, Oxford University in the UK ranked first for seven consecutive years.
THE This time, we conducted a comprehensive assessment of five fields including research content and internationality based on 1,799 universities in 104 countries and regions. Regarding the decline in rankings of the University of Tokyo and Kyoto University, THE said in an interview that the reasons were both due to the decline in assessments in areas such as the learning environment and the number of scholar citations in university publications.
Among Japanese universities, only Tokai and Kyoto University are among the top 200 that have announced their specific rankings. Within the top 500, there are Tohoku University in the 250th digits, Osaka University in the 300th digits, while Nagoya University and Tokyo University of Technology in the 350th digits.
The top ten are monopolized by universities in the United Kingdom and the United States. The highest ranking in Asia is Tsinghua University, China, ranked 16th. Peking University and Singapore National University ranked 17th and 19th respectively.
Among the top 100 universities, in terms of countries and regions, the United States has the largest number, with 34. In Asia, mainland China has the most 7, with 5 and 3 respectively, and Japan and and Singapore each.
