Monday, October 12, 2009

WorldҀs best universities in China

WorldҀs best universities in China

Six universities are ranked the best in China according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU). The ARWU is published by the Institute of Higher Education at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and several indicators of academic or research performance are used to establish the ranking, these include highly cited researchers, articles indexed in major citaton indices and staff winning Nobel Prizes.

There are 18 Chinese universities in the WordҀs Top-500 universities. The Top-6 universities in China are: Peking University; Shanghai Jiao Tong University; University of Science and Technology of China; Zheijang University; Nanjing University and Tsinghua University. All six universities are ranked 201-302 in the world according to ARWU.

Two of the six universities are located in Peking (Peking University and Tsinghua University) and one in Shanghai (Shanghai Jiao Tong University). The oldest university was established in 1896 (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) and the youngest in 1958 (University of Science and Technology of China). The smallest of the six universities is the University of Science and Technology of China with 16,588 students (7,667 undergraduates and 8,921 postgraduates).

You can view pictures of the Peking University campus and the Tsinghua University campus.



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