University ranking focusing on Asia

Times Higher Education has published its first university ranking focusing on Asia.

On the top-100 ranking released last week, Japan had the most institutions (22), followed by Taiwan (17), mainland China (15) and South Korea (14).

The top 10 individual schools were

The University of Tokyo

National University of Singapore

University of Hong Kong

Peking University

Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea

Tsinghua University in Beijing

Kyoto University

Seoul National University

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Universities in fast growing Asian countries are very much competitive.