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Oct 17, 2017, 17:12 ET

LONDON, October 17, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --

Asia's Leading Universities: Announced

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QS Quacquarelli Symonds, global higher education analysts, have today named Asia's leading 426 universities. The 2018 edition of the QS World University Rankings: Asia sees Nanyang Technological University take the number-one spot from compatriot National University of Singapore (2^nd).

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Highlights

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) rises from 4^th to 3^rd;
South Korea's KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology rises from 6^th to 4^th;
China's top university remains Tsinghua University, which falls from 5^th to 6^th;
China's Fudan University is the only new entrant into the top 10 this year; it has risen from 11^th to 7^th;
The top 50 features universities from Japan (11), China and South Korea (9); Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Taiwan (5); India (3); Singapore (2); and Thailand (1);
Malaysian universities make particularly noteworthy improvements this year, with three of its universities breaking into the top 50;

   
                     Table 1: QS University Rankings 2018: Asia (Top 10)
         2018 Rank            2017 Rank       Institution              Country/Territory
             1                    3           NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL
                                              UNIVERSITY (NTU)                 SG
             2                    1           NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF
                                              SINGAPORE (NUS)                  SG
             3                    4           THE HONG KONG
                                              UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE
                                              AND TECHNOLOGY (HKUST)           HK
             4                    6           KAIST - KOREA ADVANCED
                                              INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE
                                              AND TECHNOLOGY                   KR
             5                    2           UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
                                              (HKU)                            HK
             6                    5           TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY              CN
             7                    11          FUDAN UNIVERSITY                 CN
             8                    7           CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG
                                              KONG                             HK
             9                    9           PEKING UNIVERSITY                CN
             10                   8           THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY
                                              OF HONG KONG (CUHK)              HK
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Methodology

QS use a unique methodology to calculate this ranking. The methodology is designed to account for the unique challenges facing the region's universities, and features 10 indicators. They are:

Academic Reputation (measuring research quality)
Employer Reputation (measuring employability)
Faculty/Student Ratio (measuring teaching quality)
Papers per Faculty (research)
Citations per paper (research)
International Faculty Ratio (measuring internationalization)
Staff with PhD (teaching quality)
International Student Ratio (internationalization)
Inbound Exchange Students (internationalization)
Outbound Exchange Students (internationalization).

A detailed methodology document can be found at http://www.TopUniversities.com, as can the full table.

Ben Sowter, Research Director, QS, said: "This year's rankings suggest that, in a number of nations, established hierarchies are being disrupted. This is a result of the region's universities continually striving to become competitive, forward-thinking, and internationally attractive."

SOURCE QS Quacquarelli Symonds