NUS accorded World's Top 20 universities ranking

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7 October 2006

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has been ranked amongst the World's Top 20 and Top 3 universities in Asia in the QS World University Rankings 2006 conducted by the Times Higher Education Supplement (THES). In this annual ranking of the top 200 universities worldwide, NUS shared 2nd place in Asia and 19th spot overall with University of Tokyo.

Harvard University topped the poll in which only three Asian universities – Beijing University, University of Tokyo and NUS – made it to the top 20.

The list of Top 20 universities is given in the table below:

World's Top 20 Universities
1	Harvard University	11	University of Chicago
2	University of Cambridge	12	Columbia University
3	University of Oxford	13	Duke University
4	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	14	Beijing University
4	Yale University	15	Cornell University
6	Stanford University	16	Australian National University
7	California Institute of Technology	17	London School of Economics and Political Science
8	University of California, Berkeley	18	Ecole Normale Supérieure
9	Imperial College London	19	National University of Singapore
10	Princeton University	19	University of Tokyo

The criteria used for this year's rankings include research quality (peer review by 3,703 academics who were asked to identify up to 30 universities best for research within their own field of expertise, and citations per faculty); teaching quality; graduate employability (recruiter review by 736 employers world-wide); and international outlook (international-to-total faculty and international students-to-total students ratios).

Upon receiving the news, NUS President Professor Shih Choon Fong said, "We are encouraged and heartened to be ranked once again among the world's leading universities and one of Asia's top three. Our position within the top 20 this year is a recognition of NUS' global standing by the international community. In our continuing pursuit of excellence in education and research, NUS can contribute to Singapore's rising reputation and visibility in the global higher education landscape."

Rankings by Disciplines

NUS continues to be regarded highly in the major disciplines. It is among the world’s top 10 for Technology and Biomedicine, ranking 8th and 9th respectively. Amongst universities in Asia, NUS emerged second for Biomedicine and within the top three for Technology. The University made a significant leap in Science, jumping 12 spots from 34th last year to 22nd this year. Its ranking in Arts & Humanities also rose significantly from 56th last year to 22nd this year, taking second place in Asia. NUS is ranked 11th in the world and top in Asia for Social Sciences.

World's Top 20 Technology Universities
1	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	11	Oxford University
2	University of California, Berkeley	12	ETH Zurich
3	Indian Institutes of Technology	13	Delft University of Technology
4	Imperial College London	14	Tsing Hua University
5	Stanford University	15	Nanyang Technological University
6	Cambridge University	16	Melbourne University
7	Tokyo University	17	Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
8	National University of Singapore	18	Tokyo Institute of Technology
9	California Institute of Technology	19	University of New South Wales
10	Carnegie Mellon University	20	Beijing University

World's Top 20 Biomedicine Universities
1	Cambridge University	11	Yale University
2	Harvard University	12	Tokyo University
3	Oxford University	13	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4	Imperial College London	14	Edinburgh University
5	Stanford University	14	University of California, San Diego
6	Johns Hopkins University	16	University College London
7	Melbourne University	17	Kyoto University
8	Beijing University	18	University of Toronto
9	National University of Singapore	19	Monash University
10	University of California, Berkeley	20	Sydney University

World's Top 20 Social Science Universities
1	Oxford University	11	National University of Singapore
2	Harvard University	12	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3	London School of Economics & Political Science	13	Princeton University
4	Cambridge University	14	Columbia University
5	University of California, Berkeley	15	Tokyo University
6	Australian National University	16	Monash University
7	Stanford University	17	Peking University
7	Yale University	17	University of Toronto
9	University of Chicago	19	Sydney University
10	Melbourne University	20	McGill University

World’s Top 25 Arts and Humanities Universities
1	Cambridge University	13	Edinburgh University
2	Oxford University	14	Columbia University
3	Harvard University	15	Stanford University
4	University of California, Berkeley	16	Paris IV – Sorbonne
5	Sydney University	17	University of Chicago
6	Australian National University	18	University of New South Wales
7	Melbourne University	19	London School of Economics and Political Science
8	Yale University	20	University of California, Los Angeles
9	Princeton University	21	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10	Beijing University	22	National University of Singapore
11	University of Toronto	23	King's College London
12	McGill University	24	Amsterdam University
		25	Ecole Normale Superiere Paris

World's Top 25 Science Universities
1	Cambridge University	13	Kyoto University
2	Oxford University	14	Yale University
3	University of California, Berkeley	15	Cornell University
4	Harvard University	16	Australian National University
5	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	17	Ecole Normale Supérieure
6	Princeton University	18	University of Chicago
7	Stanford University	19	Lomonosov Moscow State University
8	California Institute of Technology	20	University of Toronto
9	Imperial College London	21	University of California, Los Angeles
10	Tokyo University	22	National University of Singapore
11	ETH Zurich	22	Pierre and Marie Curie University
12	Beijing University	24	Ecole Polytechnique
		25	Columbia University

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