Times Higher Education has once again released the Asia-Pacific University Ranking to reflect the region’s growing strength in the higher education sector.
THE’s Asia-Pacific University Ranking 2019 analysed universities across East Asia, South-east Asia and Oceania. The overall ranking features more than 300 universities from 13 different nations.
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in South Korea has been named the most innovative university in the Asia-Pacific region, according to Reuters.
The higher education world is getting smaller as more and more students are choosing to study abroad. Students are looking to universities to provide an international experience, the opportunity to study alongside people from all over the world, and to give them a truly global community in which to study.
Have you ever wondered which city contains the highest number of institutions appearing in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018? Well, you’re in luck because we’ve analysed our top 200 and top 500 universities to see which cities have the highest concentrations of elite universities.
The London Business School has been number one for four years in a row.
This year’s ranking includes 95 universities in total, a slight increase from the 91 ranked last year.
The 2017 top 10 is essentially a reshuffling of the top 10 from 2016, with the first and second place positions remaining the same.
Switzerland and Spain are the most represented countries in the top 10, each with two universities present.
Newcastle University has been named the best university in the UK for overall student experience, according to the Annual Student Experience Awards from University Compare.
University Compare’s table is based on four key elements: institute and course, accommodation, employment prospects, and social life.
Harvard University is the number one US college, according to the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education US College Rankings 2018.
Last year’s number one, Columbia University claimed the second-place position.
The rest of the top 10 includes (in descending order) Cornell University. Four of the top 10 are part of the Ivy League.
Stanford University has been named the most innovative university in the world for the third consecutive year according to the latest ranking by Reuters.
Universities in England have achieved their best year-on-year reduction in carbon emissions, research has found.
The study, carried out by sustainability consultancy Brite Green, has found that carbon emissions from universities in England fell by 7 per cent in the past year compared with 10 per cent over the previous 10 years.
Brite Green ranked the universities in England according to the percentage by which they have reduced their carbon emissions since 2005.
Deakin University's School of Exercise and Nutritional Science has taken the first place position for the second year running in ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Sport Science Schools and Departments 2017.
This subject ranking from the consultancy was published for the first time in 2016, highlighting the performance of about 300 universities with sport-related units and sport science universities.