Oct 8, 2009
NTU rises in varsity ranking
By Amelia Tan
NANYANG Technological University (NTU) has climbed four positions to reach No. 73 in a ranking of the world's top 200 universities.
It appears to be making its way back up after tumbling from 69th in 2007 to 77th last year.
The National University of Singapore (NUS) kept its 30th spot in the Times Higher Education-Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings.
Times Higher Education is a magazine, while QS is a company which provides information on higher education and career choices.
The annual survey, in which American and British universities took the top 10 spots, assesses institutions in six areas: Academic peer review, employer review, international faculty ratio, international student ratio, student-faculty ratio and the number of citations its teaching staff have garnered in academic journals.
Head of the QS intelligence unit Ben Sowter said NTU moved up the table by improving on its number of citations; NUS lost out slightly in this aspect, but improved on its student-faculty ratio.
Source: QS Intelligence Unit (www.topuniversities.com)
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Thu Oct 08, 2009 10:36 am