The results showed that the ranking of a number of the nation’s “first-tier universities” – which together receive NT$50 billion (US$1.5 billion) in subsidies from the Ministry of Education every five years – either declined or was unchanged. The Technion, Israel Institute of Technology is ranked 77, up from 78, while Israel’s other leading universities did not change their ranking.
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University of Cambridge enjoys its fifth place for another year for worldwide academic excellence (VIA SHAUN CURRY/AFP/Getty Images) Describing how Britain’s leading universities “punch well above their weight”, given the UK spends much less on higher education than its nearest rivals, she added: “If the UK is to stay at the front of the pack, we must fend-off fierce competition from countries like China, Japan, and Germany”.
Johns Hopkins University has again been recognized as one of the best universities in the world in an annual list compiled by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The Shanghai rankings began in 2003 with the goal of improving the level of Chinese universities by comparing them to the top 500 universities across the globe. Bar-Ilan University and Ben Gurion University of the Negev are ranked between 400 and 500.
“I am very pleased at Technion’s standing among the world’s elite universities in engineering and especially in the field of computer science”.
The Hebrew University is now ranked 27 positions above its initial 94th place ranking in 2003.
Just four European Universities have made it to the top 20; the latter being American Universities.
NTU professor of library and information science Huang Mu-hsuan (黃慕萱), a long-time researcher of appraisals on academic performance, said the ranking is heavily influenced by its grading criteria.
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Harvard University continued to dominate the chart, claiming the top spot for the 13th consecutive year, followed by Stanford University.
