17 February 2018
This year, the National University of Singapore has been ranked the top university in Asia by the London-based Times Higher Education magazine.
Compared to last year NUS, registered score improvement in many areas such as teaching, research, citation impact and knowledge transfer.
Nanyang Technological University also improved in most areas, but dropped one place to be ranked joint fifth with Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Both NUS and NTU achieved high scores especially on citation impact and international outlook.
The Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings uses 13 performance indicators, such as research performance, teaching environment and research citations.