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6 Chinese universities join world's top 100 in new ranking
By Liang Yiwen |
March 14, 2012, Wednesday
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SIX Chinese universities have entered the list of the top 100 universities in the 2012 World Reputation Rankings to be released by the Times Higher Education magazine tomorrow.
East Asian universities in general have improved their standing, although the United States utterly dominates the ranking with 44 universities represented.
Beijing-based Tsinghua University and Peking University have climbed to the top 40.
"This suggests that the whole world of scholarship sees the exciting changes taking place in China's higher education system, and in particular, has noticed the huge levels of investment in establishing world-class universities," said Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education Rankings.
However, the reputation ranking seems to contradict with other academic rankings which rated Chinese schools poorly in comparison with some world-famous universities.
"The ranking is based on wholly subjective opinions," said Liu Niancai, a researcher of the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities, better known as the Shanghai Ranking.
The subjective measurement cannot reflect a school's real quality of education. "It will perhaps take time for the exciting and interesting things Chinese universities are doing to properly show up in the objective indicators, such as citation impact and research paper productivity," said Baty.
East Asian universities in general have improved their standing, although the United States utterly dominates the ranking with 44 universities represented.
Beijing-based Tsinghua University and Peking University have climbed to the top 40.
"This suggests that the whole world of scholarship sees the exciting changes taking place in China's higher education system, and in particular, has noticed the huge levels of investment in establishing world-class universities," said Phil Baty, editor of the Times Higher Education Rankings.
However, the reputation ranking seems to contradict with other academic rankings which rated Chinese schools poorly in comparison with some world-famous universities.
"The ranking is based on wholly subjective opinions," said Liu Niancai, a researcher of the 2011 Academic Ranking of World Universities, better known as the Shanghai Ranking.
The subjective measurement cannot reflect a school's real quality of education. "It will perhaps take time for the exciting and interesting things Chinese universities are doing to properly show up in the objective indicators, such as citation impact and research paper productivity," said Baty.
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