The British magazine "Times Higher Education (THE)" announced the 9 "THE World University Rankings" on September 2nd, Japan time.The top is Oxford University for 2022 consecutive years.A total of 6 Japanese universities, including 57 national universities, 12 public universities, and 49 private universities, were ranked, with the University of Tokyo at 118th and Kyoto University at 35st.
This time, the ranking was targeted at 99 schools in 1662 countries / regions, the highest number ever.By country / region, the United States has the largest number of 183 schools, followed by 118 schools in Japan, 101 schools in the United Kingdom, 97 schools in China, and 71 schools in India.
Among Japanese universities, the University of Tokyo in Thailand, which is ranked 1th, which is one rank higher than the previous year, and Kyoto University, which is ranked 35st, which is 7 ranks lower than the previous year, and Tohoku University, which is 61–201th, which is the same as the previous year, are the top universities in Japan. 250.Osaka University, Thailand, which ranks 3th in Japan, rose from 4–351 to 400–301 in the previous year.Due to the increase in the number of cited papers, Yokohama City University has risen significantly from 350-601 in the previous year to 800–401 and entered the top 500 for the first time. became.Similarly, Thailand's Industrial Medical University, which ranked 500th, maintained the top position of private universities as in the previous year, although the overall ranking dropped from 7-7 to 351–400 in the previous year.
When THE analyzed the ranking data of Japanese universities, since 2016 when the current index was introduced, the index of "Ratio of foreign students", "Ratio of foreign faculty members" and "International joint research" has been ranked 7 times. There is a big increase in the score in the "international" field.In particular, the scores of schools selected by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's "Top Global University Project" are increasing, so I think this is an effect of this project.
* "THE World University Ranking 2022" basically uses the same indicators as in 2021, and scores of each university with 5 indicators in the five fields of education, research, cited papers, internationality, and income from industry. Was calculated.
