31 March 2017
In the latest Asia University Rankings 2017 published by Times Higher Education magazine, the National University of Singapore was ranked first. The second and third places went to Peking University and Tsinghua University respectively.
Nanyang Technological University was ranked fourth, whilst the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology were ranked fifth and sixth respectively.
The Times Higher Education Asia ranking comprises of Asia’s best 300 universities from 24 countries. The ranking relies on 13 performance indicators such as research performance and research citations.