The world rankings announcement comes after another rankings win for the University, which recently received a full five-star rating from QS.
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The thirteenth edition of the QS World University Rankings indicates that investment in higher education – either public or private – is a key differentiating factor between this year’s risers (South Korea, Russia, the United States, and China) and fallers (Most of Western and Southern Europe, South Africa, and Latin America).
According to the QS rankings, Trinity College remains Ireland’s top-performing university, at 98th place internationally.
Singapore Management University made its debut in the rankings this year in the 431-440 band.
The third best-ranked Asian university was China’s Tsinghua University, which rose one place to 24th this year.
London-based education consultancy QS said NTU stood out in research, ranking 64th in the world for citations per faculty while NUS was placed 9th and 11th globally, for employer and academic reputation respectively, having received flawless scores in both metrics.
“But following a major investment in our data team last year, and the decision to bring all the core university rankings data collection and analysis in-house, we felt it was particularly important to subject our team and our processes to clear, independent audit, to ensure accountability to the many university customers of our data and analytical tools, and the many millions who come to our rankings website each year”. “In most aspects, there are institutions elsewhere that can lay claim to a more spectacular indicator performance but very few that can compete across the board”.
University of Otago deputy vice-chancellor Prof Vernon Squire said the university welcomed the latest ranking.
The rankings, compiled by global higher education think tank QS Quacquarelli Symonds, confirm MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as the world’s best university for the fifth year in a row.
The QS rankings use six indicators – academic reputation, employer reputation, faculty student ratio, citations per faculty, worldwide students and global faculty. They retained the same positions for this year’s rankings.
The Cassells report on funding for third level correctly stated universities had done all they could to mitigate the collapse in funding and the higher education system’s continued contribution to social and economic development was severely threatened, they added.
Stanford, 2nd and Harvard, 3, follow.
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He said that Western European nations which are proposing cuts to public research spending are losing ground globally, while Russian Federation, the US, South Korea and Japan made notable improvements in the list.
