- Annual ranking by British-based Times Higher Education shows four local universities have reached new heights in top 100, while another made a slight drop
- City University makes debut in top 100, with dramatic leap from 151st to 99th places between this year and last
- The city’s oldest institution, the 111-year-old University of Hong Kong, fell one place in the global list to 31st place. A spokesperson for the institution said it hoped efforts to become “Asia’s Global University” would help to enhance its international reputation.
- Baptist University, meanwhile, slid from the 401-500 ranking last year to ranging in the 501-600 section. The drop marked the institution’s worst performance in its history, with the campus once ranking 111th in 2010.
- The list by Times Higher Education is compiled after analyzing 15.5 million research publications and 121 million citations linked to those papers, alongside more than 40,000 responses from an annual academic reputation survey.
- The publishers also consider hundreds of thousands of additional data points, including the teaching environment at each university, their international outlook and industry links.
- Oxford University held onto the top spot on the list for a seventh year, followed by Harvard University in the United States and its long-time rival, the University of Cambridge.
- The US continued to dominate the wider ranking, with 177 universities placed overall, including seven in the top 10 and 12 in the top 20. But the list’s publishers said the country’s position was under threat from Asia, noting the number of American institutions had fallen in recent years, dropping from 43 in 2018 to 34 this year.
- Researchers involved in compiling the ranking said mainland China now had an “unprecedented” seven universities in the top 100, up from six in 2021 and just two only five years ago.
- Among them, Tsinghua University ranked 16th worldwide and continued to be the best-performing Chinese institution and top school in Asia, followed by Peking University at 17th place.
- Phil Baty, chief knowledge officer for THE, said the change marked a shift in the balance of power in the global knowledge economy, challenging the position traditionally held by the West.
- “While the US and UK remain dominant in terms of their representation at the very top of the rankings, their relative power is waning: mainland China leads a strengthening in East Asia, taking more and more of the top 200 places,” Baty said.
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