One of the two most authoritative world college rankings together with QS
24 universities in Korea including YU ranked in top 800 universities of the world
[Oct 5, 2015]
YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) was ranked 14th in the nation and 601-800 in the world in the ‘2015-2016 World University Rankings’ held by the British college ranking institute, ‘THE (Times Higher Education)’.
On the 30th of last month (local time), THE announced its list of the top 800 universities according to its world university rankings. According to this list, YU, a total of 24 Korean universities were included in the top 800 including Seoul National University (85), POSTECH (116), and KAIST (148). In the Korean college rankings based on this, YU was ranked 14th together with Kyungpook National University, Konkuk University, Sogang University and Chonbuk National University (in no particular order).
First place in this ranking went to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), followed by Oxford University of England, Stanford University of the US, Cambridge University of England, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) of the US, which took second to fifth places respectively.
THE, which was established in 1971, announces world university rankings every year by comprehensively evaluating thirteen areas in five fields such as the △Teaching field 30% △Research field 30% △Thesis citations field 30% △International outlook field 7.5% △Industry income field. Together with the British QS (Quacquarelli Symonds), it is one of the two most authoritative global university assessment institutes. For one example, Seoul National University responds to only these two university rankings among the many in the world.
Meanwhile, YU showed a stark rise in the ‘2015 Asia University Rankings’ announced by QS in June and ranked 135th in Asia. It rose 23 steps compared to the previous year in the academic evaluation, thus being 118th in Asia (16th in Korea). This was a significant feat in that Korean universities showed signs of slowing down overall. Based on these achievements, YU received ‘A ratings’, the highest ranking, in the ‘2015 University Structure Reforms Evaluation’ announced by the Ministry of Education in August. It was thus officially recognized for the school’s competitiveness.
On these achievements, YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, “Our school’s prestige was objectively evaluated by a globally reputable university evaluation institute,” He added, “Based on such indices, I hope that not only YU, but other Korean universities as well will compete against prestigious universities around the world and raise the value of our education and research.”
