Singapore (Commonwealth Union)_ According to the recently released Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023, National University of Singapore (NUS) and Nanyang Technological University (NTU) made it to the top 50 global universities list. The National University of Singapore’s international ranking rose from 21st to 19th. The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) climbed up and rose from 46 to 36. This year’s rankings featured a record number of 1,799 institutions from 104 nations and regions, making it the highest edition in the 19-year journey of the yearly rankings. In 2021, a total of 1 662 institutions were ranked.
The most recent rankings indicate that NUS has entered the top 20 for the first time. Accordingly, NUS has been among the top 50 universities since 2011 and NTU since 2020. In this year’s rankings, the University of Oxford in England made it to the top spot. This is the seventh year in a row that this institution has topped the list. Second on the list was Harvard University in the United States, followed by the University of Cambridge in England and Stanford University in the United States, which shared the third spot. All four universities made it to the top five list last year as well.
The rankings are based on an examination of research papers and citations, in addition to a poll of academic repute that received around 40,000 responses. Apart from this, extra information on the university’s teaching, faculty, and students, as well as its industrial income, was also considered. Other top universities are Tsinghua University in China which is ranked sixteenth, while the University of Hong Kong is ranked thirty-first.
According to Mr. Phil Baty, the chief knowledge officer for Times Higher Education, the progress of NUS and NTU in the rankings demonstrated Singapore’s remarkable improvement. The Times Higher Education and QS World University Rankings are two of the most prominent university ranking lists worldwide. Mr Baty said: “The data shows that Singapore is a growing world powerhouse for excellence in higher education – a powerful and well-connected international hub that continues to improve”.
