Here Are The Top 100 Best Universities In Asia: QS Rankings 2018

Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) was named top university in Asia, according to the QS Asian University Rankings 2018. The National University of Singapore (NUS) dropped to 2nd and was followed by Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST).

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) was ranked 5th best university in Asia, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and City University of Hong Kong were placed at 6th, 7th and 8th positions, respectively. While Peking University features at the 9th position, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is at 10th.

Nine universities made it to the top 100 Asian universities ranking, ranks IIT Bombay at 34th position, IIT Delhi at 41, and IIT Madras at 48. The Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, which ranked at 33 in 2017, dropped to 51st position this year, followed by IIT Kanpur at 59th position, IIT Kharagpur at 62, University of Delhi at 72, IIT Roorkee at 93, and IIT Guwahati at 99.

Here are the top 100 best universities in Asia

How are they ranked?

The list this year features more than 400 universities in Asia. It was compiled assessing universities on 10 indicators, including the number of academic staff qualified up to PhD level, the proportion of inbound and outbound exchange students, academic and employer reputation and student-teacher ratio, among others.

This is not the first NTU has bested NUS in global rankings. In Center for World University Rankings (CWUR) Rankings 2017, released earlier this week, National University of Singapore (NUS) took 61st place worldwide. However, CEOWORLD magazine’s best universities for graduate employability in 2017, the gap between the two rivals are much bigger. National University of Singapore (NUS) was ranked at No. 13 and Nanyang Technological University was at No. 111. Faculty of Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS) placed 9th and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) followed in 12th place on the list of the world’s best universities for engineering and technology for 2017. Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2018: Nanyang Technological University (NTU) was at 52nd spot, while National University of Singapore (NUS) shared the 22nd place with Canada’s University of Toronto.