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Five HK universities named among the top 100 in world ranking
Five of Hong Kong's top tertiary institutes were listed in the top 100 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023.
The newly released ranking, published on Wednesday, includes 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions.
The University of Hong Kong is ranked 31st as the best in Hong Kong, dropping one place from last year. The Chinese University of Hong Kong ranked 45th, rising for three consecutive years.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has been placed 58th, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ranked 79th, up 12 places from the 2022 rankings.
The City University of Hong Kong ranked 99th in the table, rising significantly from 151st place in 2022.
Meanwhile, China's share of the world's top 100 positions has risen from just two in 2018 to an impressive seven today, with Tsinghua University ranked 16th, the best in Asian countries.
South Korea has three top 100 places, up from two in 2018. Singapore and Japan both take two top 100 places each.
The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in second place, but the University of Cambridge jumped from joint fifth last year to joint third.
The World University Rankings is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution's performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. This year's ranking analyzed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.
Harvard tops the teaching pillar, while Oxford leads the research pillar. Atop the international pillar is the Macau University of Science and Technology.
The University of Hong Kong is ranked 31st as the best in Hong Kong, dropping one place from last year. The Chinese University of Hong Kong ranked 45th, rising for three consecutive years.
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has been placed 58th, and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University ranked 79th, up 12 places from the 2022 rankings.
The City University of Hong Kong ranked 99th in the table, rising significantly from 151st place in 2022.
Meanwhile, China's share of the world's top 100 positions has risen from just two in 2018 to an impressive seven today, with Tsinghua University ranked 16th, the best in Asian countries.
South Korea has three top 100 places, up from two in 2018. Singapore and Japan both take two top 100 places each.
The University of Oxford tops the ranking for the seventh consecutive year. Harvard University remains in second place, but the University of Cambridge jumped from joint fifth last year to joint third.
The World University Rankings is based on 13 carefully calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution's performance across four areas: teaching, research, knowledge transfer, and international outlook. This year's ranking analyzed over 121 million citations across more than 15.5 million research publications and included survey responses from 40,000 scholars globally.
Harvard tops the teaching pillar, while Oxford leads the research pillar. Atop the international pillar is the Macau University of Science and Technology.
