The 2022 edition of the World University Rankings by Research Field by Quacquarelli Symonds, a UK university evaluation institution, revealed that Japanese universities are among the highest in Asia, but overall their status has dropped further.
According to KEI Advance of the Kawaijuku Group, which is the official partner of Quaquarelli Simmons in Japan, the World University Rankings by Research Area measured the situation of 51 universities in the world for 1,543 research fields and XNUMX academic fields.
There were 50 research fields in Asian universities in the top 398, of which 105 were in mainland China and 76 in Hong Kong, surpassing 72 in Japan.Japan had 2019 in the 79 edition, but has reduced the number by seven.Of the research fields in Japan, 7% went up in the ranking, while 16% went down, highlighting the struggle of Japanese universities.
Among the universities in the Asian region with the top 50 research fields, the University of Tokyo has the largest number of fields, 41. The second is Seoul University in South Korea 2, and the third is Beijing University in China 38.Among Japanese universities, Kyoto University is ranked 3th with 37.It can be confirmed that Japan's top universities are still at the highest peak in Asia.
"Japanese universities are struggling because spending on science and technology research over the last decade has fallen behind competitors around the world, at least for the next five years," said Ben Sorter, senior vice president of Quacquarelli Simmons. The movement of the above may not appear in the ranking. "
