Original title: QS released the ranking of Asian universities in 2020, and Tsinghua Fudan ranked down
4hw.com.cn and QS released the 2020 ranking of Asian universities on November 27. The first ten of Asia's top universities came from Chinese mainland for the first time in 4. Among them, Tsinghua University and Fudan University ranked fourth and seventh respectively, both down one place from the previous year; Peking University remained unchanged, still ranked fifth; Zhejiang University for the first time entered the top ten of QS Asian University, ranking sixth.
The top ten Asian universities in 2020 are: National University of Singapore, Nanyang University of technology, Hong Kong University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Hong Kong University of science and technology, Korean Academy of science and technology and Chinese University of Hong Kong. In the ranking, Zhejiang University has changed significantly, from 13th in the previous year to 6th. In addition, Shanghai Jiaotong University ranked 17th, ranking in the top 20 in parallel with the top 4 universities.
At the same time, compared with the ranking of Asian universities in 2019qs, among the top ten universities in 2020, the ranking of universities in Hong Kong has declined. Among them, the University of Hong Kong dropped from the second to the third, the University of science and technology of Hong Kong from the seventh to the eighth, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong from the ninth to the tenth. In contrast, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Baptist University and Lingnan University of Hong Kong all ranked higher, ranking 19, 25, 58 and 113 respectively.
In recent years, Chinese mainland universities ranked the highest in QS Asia university rankings. When the rankings were first published in 2009, there was only one Mainland University in the top 10 and only two in the top 20. In the ranking of 2019 Asian universities released by QS last year, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Fudan University ranked in the top ten in Asia.
It is reported that the QS World University ranking was released by quacquarelli Symonds, an international education market consulting company in the UK, with academic reputation, employer reputation, teacher-student ratio, research citation rate and internationalization as the scoring criteria. QS World University Ranking and times world university ranking of higher education, USNEWS World University Ranking and World University Academic Ranking are recognized as four authoritative world university rankings.