5 Korean universities are on the earth’s prime 100…Seoul Nationwide College overtakes Tokyo College after 9 years

Within the ‘2024 World College Rankings’ introduced on the fifth by QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), a British world college analysis group, it was discovered that the rating of Korea’s prime universities had usually elevated. There have been the identical 5 locations within the prime 100 as final 12 months. Seoul Nationwide College (thirty first) rose 10 locations in a single 12 months. He handed the College of Tokyo (thirty second) for the primary time in 9 years from 2015.

This evaluation evaluated over 5,000 universities worldwide and ranked them 1,five hundredth. A complete of 43 home universities had been ranked. On this 12 months’s evaluation, the highest universities in Korea equivalent to Seoul Nationwide College, Yonsei College, and Korea College made nice progress. Yonsei College was ranked 56th, up 20 locations from final 12 months, and Korea College rose from 79th final 12 months to 67th this 12 months. KAIST (56th -> 53rd) and POSTECH (a hundredth -> 98th) additionally rose barely in rankings. Sungkyunkwan College (123rd) and Hanyang College (162nd) additionally jumped 22 and a couple of locations, respectively, from the earlier 12 months. On this evaluation, america had probably the most universities within the prime 100 (25), adopted by the UK (15) and Australia (9). Korea had 5 areas, the identical as China, Germany, and Hong Kong, and Japan had 4 areas.

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The rise within the rankings of Korea’s prime universities is believed to be because of reaching good scores within the ‘sustainability’ index, which assesses universities’ ESG (environmental, social and governance) efficiency. This indicator, which was newly launched by QS final 12 months, receives larger scores as extra gender-equal employment insurance policies or environmentally pleasant insurance policies are carried out. After the introduction of this indicator, many prime universities established separate teams for ESG and developed the system.

This 12 months, Seoul Nationwide College obtained the sixth greatest rating amongst Asian universities. Particularly, the ’employment efficiency’ indicator rose from eighth on the earth final 12 months to 4th this 12 months. Which means that not solely is the employment fee excessive, nevertheless it additionally produces many influential graduates overseas. ‘Educational Evaluation’ was twentieth on the earth, and ‘Graduate Status’ was sixteenth. Seoul Nationwide College was ranked thirty sixth in 2015, surpassing the College of Tokyo in Japan, which was ranked thirty ninth on the time, however has since fallen behind. Then, this 12 months’s rating rose 10 locations in comparison with the earlier 12 months, once more surpassing the College of Tokyo (thirty second), which fell 4 locations in comparison with the earlier 12 months.

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Within the ‘paper quotation rely’, which displays the college’s analysis capabilities, Gwangju Institute of Science and Know-how was ranked 4th on the earth, up one place from final 12 months. It ranks first amongst home universities. Daegu-Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Know-how (twelfth) and Ulsan Institute of Science and Know-how (thirty fourth) additionally ranked excessive.

Yonsei College, which entered the highest 50 this 12 months, has recorded the very best rating amongst personal Asian universities for 3 consecutive years. When it comes to the variety of college students per professor, POSTECH ranked twenty fourth on the earth, the very best amongst Korean universities, whereas Hanyang College ranked 257th within the ratio of international college students, the very best peak in Korea.

Within the total rating of universities, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Know-how) has held first place for 13 consecutive years. English-speaking universities occupied 2nd to fifth place. Imperial Faculty (United Kingdom) was in second place, up 4 locations from final 12 months, and Oxford College (United Kingdom) was in third place. Harvard College (USA) and Cambridge College (UK) had been ranked 4th and fifth, respectively. Among the many prime 10, there have been two non-Anglophone universities: ETH Zurich (seventh) and the Nationwide College of Singapore (eighth).

Ben Sauter, senior vice chairman of QS, mentioned, “Korea is very regarded by international employers, nevertheless it nonetheless struggles by way of college internationalization indicators,” he added, “We should always co – strengthen world cooperation and give attention to fostering the STEM (Science, Know-how, Engineering, and Arithmetic) “We want a method,” he mentioned.

QS World College Rankings assess universities utilizing 9 indicators, together with ‘educational evaluation’, ‘worldwide analysis community’, ’employment efficiency’, and ‘ESG efficiency’.

Final March, Professor Jongseung Kim from the Division of Chemistry at Korea College was conducting analysis on the synthesis of focused anti-cancer medicine with graduate college students in his laboratory. Korea College was 67th within the 2024 QS World College Rankings. /Korea College