NTU ranks 11th with gains in citation per faculty and employer reputation; NUS down to 15th
Nanyang Technological University, which has
traditionally lagged behind the National University of Singapore in
international rankings, has upset the apple cart and overtaken
Singapore's oldest university this year.
In the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World
University Rankings released this morning, NTU moved up two places to be
ranked 11th, while NUS fell from the 12th to 15th position. Singapore
Management University was placed in the 441-450 category.
NTU has made improvements across four of the
six metrics that QS uses to rank universities and has made the biggest
gains in employer reputation and citations per faculty.
QS said analysis of Scopus/Elsevier academic citations data shows that
NUS has higher overall research output and citations impact.
But NTU scored higher because of how QS assesses research impact. Since
2015, QS has adjusted the research data numbers to offset the advantage
that institutions with large volumes of medical research have.
ed the research data numbers to offset the advantage that institutions with large volumes of medical research have.
Also, NTU has fewer faculty members - 4,300 as opposed to 5,100 at NUS - resulting in a higher citations-per-faculty score.
"This disparity is the primary driver of
NTU's success this year," said QS, adding that NTU's ascendancy is also
best understood as part of a recurrent global trend - "universities with
a heavy technological focus have made consistent improvements and, in
many cases, are gaining ground".
Mr Ben Sowter, research director at QS, said
NUS and NTU appear to share a common comparative narrative with Harvard
and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MIT overtook Harvard in
the 2012 rankings.
"So perhaps it has only been a matter of
time before NTU's parallel journey would carry them ahead of NUS, as it
has this year," he said.
MIT held its No. 1 position for the sixth
year running in the table which ranks the world's top 959
higher-education institutions this year. Stanford is second and Harvard,
third.
Professor Bertil Andersson, president of
NTU, noted that the university had risen from the 74th place in the 2010
QS ranking, and said: "As a university, we have been in hyper drive -
ramping up research, designing innovative academic and research
programmes, building new facilities and more." He said NTU's young and
upcoming scientists make up 8 per cent of the faculty, but they account
for almost 40 per cent of NTU's citations in top research journals.
"They represent the NTU of tomorrow," he said.
Mr Sowter said NTU's rise showed that young, well-run institutions could quickly achieve success.
He said NUS, which was ranked No. 1 in Asia
for academic and employer reputation, "remains consistently excellent",
but dropped a couple of places owing to the "ever-escalating standards"
set by the world's leading universities.
NUS president Tan Chorh Chuan said: "NUS
will continue to stay focused on bringing positive impact to the
communities we serve through education and research."
He also commented on NUS' placing in another
ranking released today - Asia's 75 most innovative universities - where
NUS was placed 11th, the same as last year.
Prof Tan said it was recognition of the "deep impact" of NUS' research towards the advancement of science and technology.
NTU has climbed from its 35th position last year to be placed 25th this year in the list by Reuters.
Ref;http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/ntu-overtakes-nus-in-global-ranking
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