QS RANKINGS 2016-2017– Growing challenges from the world’s emerging economic powers
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The inspiration for sharing this post comes from the recent edition of QS World University Rankings 2016-2017 (published on 6 September 2016) and the fact that the two Public Universities in Singapore, namely National University of Singapore (Rank 12) and Nanyang Technological University (Rank 13) throwing greater challenges to both US and UK top ranking universities.
Both National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) are now ranked within the World’s top 15 Universities. Unlike some of the top Universities slipping in from their last year’s positions (e.g. Harvard University slipping from 2 to 3; Cambridge University from 3 to 4, Imperial College London from 8 to 9), both NUS and NTU have retained their same position in this year’s ranking, as well.
Some additional facts:
- NUS and NTU also remained the only two Asian universities in the global top 15 universities with China’s Tsinghua University the next closest at 24th Rank;
- Both NUS and NTU surpassed Ivy League schools including Yale University (Rank 15), Cornell University (Rank 16), Pennsylvania University (Rank 18) and Columbia University (Rank 20) in the United States and thus demonstrating a strong upward momentum for Asia’s Higher Education hubs;
- Only two other Ivy League schools, namely Harvard University (Rank 3) and Princeton University (Rank 11) are ahead of NUS and NTU;
- Incidentally, the other two Ivy League Schools, namely Brown University and Dartmouth College are way behind NUS and NTU with Brown University ranking at 49 and Dartmouth ranking at 158.
- That is, of the 8 Ivy League Schools, NUS and NTU are ahead of 6 Ivy League schools.
For the purpose of this Post I only considered the top 20 Institutions mainly to highlight the supremacy of Asian Universities, namely NUS and NTU over some of the top ranking US and UK universities.
The application processes for both NUS http://www.nus.edu.sg/and NTU http://www.ntu.edu.sg/for the Academic Year 2017-2018 will commence in October 2016, i.e. in about a couple of weeks’ time. Please do check the websites for further details including Scholarships.
Please do not think that this is a promotional Post on NUS and NTU. In fact, as some of us are already aware that both NUS and NTU do not need to market themselves as they both are well known internationally. Incidentally, to my knowledge, these two Institutions do not engage Agents to recruit students, rather they both encourage prospective students to contact them directly for any assistance.
The purpose of this Post will be served if deserving students considered NUS and or NTU for suitable courses, besides their other study destinations such as USA, UK, Australia, etc.
I am privileged to have visited briefly both NUS and NTU a few years ago.
Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) is a British company specializing in education and study abroad (Wikipedia)
According to QS, “the rankings are based on academic reputation, employer reputation and research impact”.
Besides QS, Times Higher Education (THE) and Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) are the other two most widely and frequently referenced Rankings.
In addition to World University Rankings, QS Rankings are available (i) by Subject, (ii) for 350 top universities in Asia; (iii) for 250 top universities in the five BRICS countries (i.e. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.) ,
The interactive QS Ranking tables lend themselves to compile helpful analysis. So good luck to prospective students and Parents and do make the most of this edition of QS World University Rankings.
Other Useful Links:
http://www.topuniversities.com/subject-rankings/2016
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