China's Tsinghua University enters top 20 university rankings
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Times Higher Education (THE) on Wednesday announced that China's Tsinghua University has become the first ever Asian university to achieve a top 20 position in the rankings since the current methodology was launched in 2011.
According to the THE
World University Rankings 2021, Tsinghua University (joint 20th) climbed
three places since last year despite a record 1,527 institutions
qualifying this time round.
Towards the top of the table, Peking
University (23rd), Fudan University (joint 70th), Zhejiang University
and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (100th) all improved their positions
since last year. This has resulted in a record number of Chinese
mainland universities ranking in the top 100 since the rankings began.
Phil
Baty, chief knowledge officer at THE, told Xinhua that this year marks a
major milestone, as Chinese mainland disrupts the traditional
domination of Western universities at the top of the table, breaking
into the top 20 for the first time, and doubling its representation in
the top 100 compared with last year.
This positive trend for
Chinese mainland universities "looks as though it will continue,
particularly as we navigate the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. With
a likely decrease in the international flow of students and staff
around the world and possible funding challenges among the West's
established higher education sectors we could see China, and Asia more
widely, capitalize," he said.
"If homegrown talent from China stay
in China instead of making its traditional migration to elite Western
institutions, particularly in the U.S. and the UK, we could see the
start of a dramatic rebalancing of the global knowledge economy," he
added.
Britain's University of Oxford retained top spot for the
fifth consecutive year. The latest edition of the Rankings saw 18
countries and regions represented in the top 100, and 93 represented
overall, demonstrating that geopolitical competition in the global
knowledge economy is intensifying.
A shift in power has been noted
as the research quality of the middle-ranking Chinese mainland and U.S.
universities (middle 50 percent of ranked institutions) is beginning to
converge for the first time, according to THE.
The THE World
University Rankings 2021 saw 141 universities qualify for the first
time. India has the highest total of debutant universities with 14,
closely followed by the U.S. (13), Chinese mainland (10), Russia and
Japan (both 9), and Iran (8).
The THE World University Rankings is
seen as one of the most balanced and comprehensive global rankings,
with 13 separate performance metrics covering the full range of core
activities for research-intensive universities: teaching, research,
knowledge transfer, and international outlook.
This year's ranking analyzed over 86 million citations across more than 13.6 million research publications and included survey responses from 22,000 scholars globally.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency;CGTN
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