Taiwan universities suffer disappointing year in THE ranking - Taipei Times
Staff Writer, with CNA, LONDON
Fri, Oct 07, 2011 - Page 2
The global rankings of National Taiwan University (NTU) and three other leading national universities that did particularly well last year have dived in a recent assessment made by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine published on Wednesday.
NTU’s world ranking dropped from 115th last year to 154th in the 2011-2012 THE World University Rankings.
National Tsing Hua University tumbled from 105th last year to between 201st and 255th in the new rankings, followed by National Sun Yat-Sen University, which fell from 163rd to between 251st and 275th in the same period.
National Chiao Tung University also dropped from 181st last year to between 226th and 250th this year.
Some universities that made the 261st-400th cut last year did not make the cut this year, including National Cheng Kung University, National Chung Hsing University and National Chung Cheng University.
Universities ranking lower than 200 are not assigned individual rankings, but are presented by range.
The universities might be disappointed with this year’s outcome, but the massive slide in rankings occurred because of changes made in the assessment procedures and the complicated evaluation process, THE deputy editor Phil Baty said.
Competition was also more fierce this year, with a growing number of new universities submitting information for evaluation, Baty added.
Overall, Taiwanese universities’ performances were acceptable, but changes made in assessment weighting put them at a disadvantage, Baty said.
If Taiwanese universities want to raise their global rankings, they needed to improve in the area of international research by attracting top scholars and international students, employing more foreign staff and training doctoral students, Baty said.
Other areas where improvements need to be made include cooperation with top academics and institutes, publishing higher quality research papers and increasing international influence and visibility in the global academic community, he said.
Criteria weighting for this year’s rankings was changed to 30 percent each for teaching, research and citations, international outlook accounted for 7.5 percent and industry outcome for 2.5 percent.
More than 17,500 international academics and experts were interviewed when compiling the list.
This is the eighth year THE has conducted its world university rankings.
Fri, Oct 07, 2011 - Page 2
The global rankings of National Taiwan University (NTU) and three other leading national universities that did particularly well last year have dived in a recent assessment made by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine published on Wednesday.
NTU’s world ranking dropped from 115th last year to 154th in the 2011-2012 THE World University Rankings.
National Tsing Hua University tumbled from 105th last year to between 201st and 255th in the new rankings, followed by National Sun Yat-Sen University, which fell from 163rd to between 251st and 275th in the same period.
National Chiao Tung University also dropped from 181st last year to between 226th and 250th this year.
Some universities that made the 261st-400th cut last year did not make the cut this year, including National Cheng Kung University, National Chung Hsing University and National Chung Cheng University.
Universities ranking lower than 200 are not assigned individual rankings, but are presented by range.
The universities might be disappointed with this year’s outcome, but the massive slide in rankings occurred because of changes made in the assessment procedures and the complicated evaluation process, THE deputy editor Phil Baty said.
Competition was also more fierce this year, with a growing number of new universities submitting information for evaluation, Baty added.
Overall, Taiwanese universities’ performances were acceptable, but changes made in assessment weighting put them at a disadvantage, Baty said.
If Taiwanese universities want to raise their global rankings, they needed to improve in the area of international research by attracting top scholars and international students, employing more foreign staff and training doctoral students, Baty said.
Other areas where improvements need to be made include cooperation with top academics and institutes, publishing higher quality research papers and increasing international influence and visibility in the global academic community, he said.
Criteria weighting for this year’s rankings was changed to 30 percent each for teaching, research and citations, international outlook accounted for 7.5 percent and industry outcome for 2.5 percent.
More than 17,500 international academics and experts were interviewed when compiling the list.
This is the eighth year THE has conducted its world university rankings.
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