On September 2019, 9, the British magazine "THE (Times Higher Education)" announced the "THE World University Rankings" in 12.The number of Japanese universities has increased by 2020 from the previous time, and 7 schools are ranked in, but the low score of "internationality" echoes the University of Tokyo at 110th place (100nd place last time) and Kyoto University 36th place (previous time). There are only two schools (same). First place was Oxford University for four consecutive years.
The THE World University Rankings are evaluated by 30 indicators in 7.5 fields: education, research, cited papers (2.5% each), internationality (5%), and income from industry (13%), as in the previous survey.
The ranked Japanese universities are 57 national, 11 public, and 42 private.
Among national universities, Tohoku University, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Nagoya University, Hokkaido University, and Kyushu University maintained their rankings.
As for public universities, Yokohama City University is ranked 501-600 (previous 601-800), and the University of Aizu and Tokyo Metropolitan University are ranked 601-800 (same as last time).
At the top of private universities, the score of cited papers was high, and the University of Occupational and Environmental Health ranked 351 to 400 for the first time.Next, Fujita Medical University and Teikyo University, which changed their names from Fujita Health University, ranked 401-500, and Keio University and Waseda University ranked 601-800, both of which were the same as last time.
Following the Industrial Medical University, Kurume University (601-800), Kyoto Prefectural Medical University (801-1000), St. Marianna University School (801-1000), and Mie University (1001+) were ranked for the first time. , Osaka Medical University (1001+), Shiga University of Medical Science (1001+), all of which are followed by universities with medical schools.
The top three Asians are Tsinghua University (3rd), Beijing University (23th), and National University of Singapore (35th).In Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (25th in the same ratio) and two schools are in the top 48.In addition, Taiwan's National Taiwan University is focusing on improving the scores of cited papers and research, raising the rank by 50 to 50th place at the same rate.
