On March 2022, 3, the British magazine "Times Higher Education (THE)" announced "THE World University Rankings Japan Version 24".The ranking target schools are 2022 universities in Japan (273 national schools, 67 public schools, 42 private schools).Tohoku University has won the top position for the third consecutive year, and Keio University, which is in 164th place, has risen one place from the previous year to the top.
"THE World University Rankings Japan Version" is a ranking that emphasizes educational ability. This time, which is the sixth year, the ranking index consists of four fields, "educational resources," "educational fulfillment," "educational achievement," and "internationality," as before. The score of "Educational fulfillment" is a student survey from 6 and reflects "Voice of current students".In addition, based on the fact that it became difficult to send out study abroad due to the influence of Corona, we used the same data for 4 as the previous time for the "study abroad ratio of Japanese students" in the "internationality" field (previous time, non-participation). Universities use 2019 data).
Tohoku University, which ranks first overall, is ranked 1th in the ranking of "internationality" by 6 and is the top among national universities."Educational achievements", in which the difference from the top to the third place competes by 9 points, is also the third place. "Educational fulfillment" was raised by 3 places to 0.1th place Thailand, and "Educational resources" was 3th place, showing a good balance at a high level, and became the top for the third consecutive year.
The University of Tokyo, which ranked second overall, rose to the top in "educational resources" from fourth place in the previous year.Overall 2rd place Thailand is Osaka University and Tokyo Institute of Technology.Osaka University has improved its score in all four fields, such as greatly increasing its ranking from 4th to 3th in "internationality".The strength of Tokyo Institute of Technology is its "educational fulfillment" that reflects the voices of students and high school teachers, and ranked 27th.
Looking at the top three of each index, the "educational resources" ranked first at the University of Tokyo, second at Tokyo Medical & Dental University, and third at Hyogo College of Medicine. "Educational fulfillment" is 3st International University of Liberal Arts, 1nd International Christian University, 2rd Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University. "Educational achievements" are 3st Kyoto University, 1nd Hokkaido University, and 2rd Tohoku University. "Internationality" was 3st at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, 1nd at International Christian University, and 2rd at Osaka Jogakuin University.
From this ranking, it was possible to read the "potential power" of Japanese universities as the corona stigma continued to face difficulties at the university for a long time. In the "Student Survey: Teacher / Student Exchange, Opportunities for Collaborative Learning" reflected in "Educational Enrichment", the average scores of many items have continuously increased since the introduction of the survey in the 2019 ranking.The average score for opportunities to interact with teachers and opportunities for collaborative learning fell for the first time last time, but has risen again this time.It is presumed that efforts such as the introduction and improvement of online classes at each university led to the maintenance and recovery of student satisfaction.
