Tsinghua Ranked Top Engineering School in World, Beating Out MIT

Tsinghua Ranked Top Engineering School in World, Beating Out MIT
Oct 10, 2015 By eChinacities.com

Editor's Note: The number one ranker of college rankings are putting out their annual lists. We've already seen the list for top universities in the world overall, but the rankings for subsections such as Economics and Business, Mathematics, Social Sciences and Public Health, etc. have just been released and a certain Tsinghua University has nabbed the number one spot on the Engineering list. Say what you want about the value of these rankings, you better believe Chinese parents are going to be using this as bragging rights for years. The article reports on Tsinghua's ranking as well as reviewing other overall rankings. 

Tsinghua University is now ranked as the best university for engineering in the world, beating out MIT for the top spot in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report global university rankings. Tsinghua beat out dozens of top ranking American tech universities as well as its Chinese peers.

In overall rankings, Peking University is ranked 41 out of the 100 top world universities, Tsinghua is 59, and Fudan is 96.

It has been a great week for scientific achievement in China overall. On October 5, Tu Youyou was rewarded a Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of new therapies related to malaria. On October 6, Tsinghua University became the first number one ranking Chinese university in a subsection of the U.S. News & World Report university rankings.

Tsinghua at Number 1
Before 2014, the U.S. News & World Report rankings focused only on colleges and universities within the United States with lists included Best Colleges, and Best Graduate Schools. In October 2014, U.S. News & World Report released the 2015 World University Rankings, ranking the top 100 universities globally.

Last year, Tsinghua was ranked second to MIT for its engineering program, but this year it jumped to first place. Several other universities are included in the top 10 for engineering including Zhejiang University (ranked 4th), Harbin Institute of Technology (7th), and City University of Hong Kong (10th). Other institutes included in the top 10 are University of California Berkeley, Singapore’s Nanyang Technical University, National University of Singapore (which is tied with Nanyang), Stanford University, and Georgia Institute of Technology.

Top Universities Globally
There is almost no change in the top 10 for overall rankings. University of Chicago and Columbia University switched places in the rankings. Eight of the 10 top universities in the world are in the United States, and two- Cambridge and Oxford- are in the United Kingdom (ranked fifth and sixth respectively).

The top 10 universities in the world in ranking order are: Harvard University, MIT, University of California Berkeley, Stanford University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, California Institute of Technology, University of California Los Angeles, Columbia University, and the University of Chicago.

In Asia, only three public universities in Japan and Korea were included in the top 200.

Asian Universities Ranked
Here is how some of the best universities in Asia fared in the top 100: Tokyo University (31), Peking University (41), National University of Singapore (49), Tsinghua University (59), University of Hong Kong (64), Nanyang Technological University (74), Kyoto University (86), Fudan University (96).

How did Mainland Chinese universities fare overall in the top 200? Starting after number 100, here is a list of ranking order: Zhejiang University (106), China University of Science and Technology (131), Shanghai Jiaotong University (136), Nanjing University (180), Zhongshan University (198).

Hong Kong universities ranked in the top 200 are Chinese University of Hong Kong (119), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (142), and City University of Hong Kong (187). National Taiwan University is ranked 128.

South Korea had three universities within the top 200: Seoul National University (105), Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (184) and Pohang University of Science and Technology (197).

U.S. News & World Report used the following factors in determining overall rankings: global research reputation, regional research reputation, publications, books, conferences, normalized citation impact, total citations, number of publications that are among the 10% most cited, percentage of total publications that are among the 10% most cited, international collaboration, number of PhDs awarded, and number of PhDs awarded per staff member.

In other words, a university’s reputation and influence at home and abroad, its number of publications and the degree that they are cited, and the number of annual doctorate degrees award all have an impact on overall rankings.

Source: QQ News

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Garbo

Even other news agencies are calling BS. Plaigerizing papers ,etc. are the order of the day .

Oct 14, 2015 17:03 Report Abuse

Padec

I give it to the Chinese when it comes to Quantity over quality. We need to get a genuine list of alumni and their accomplishments to comnpare.

Oct 14, 2015 12:38 Report Abuse

Guest2694526

All well and good, but where would you rather study, in a place where there are rats in the classroom or in an actual proper university..

Oct 13, 2015 18:12 Report Abuse

umzung

What about the School of Hard Knocks?

Oct 12, 2015 11:20 Report Abuse

royceH

Been there...gotta say it wasn't all beer and skittles.

Oct 13, 2015 19:20 Report Abuse

jjwarner843

Something has happened to US News & World Reports. Tsinghua University school of engineering really was ranked #1 and MIT #2. Lots of Chinese universities are in the top ranks. That should beg the wtf question to US News. Are they getting paid for their rankings now? Tsinghua got a perfect score from their own criteria!

Oct 11, 2015 21:22 Report Abuse

coineineagh

Blah rankings are for children's minds. That Malaria story is an eerie reminder of something I heard years ago, about a Chinese delegation trying to sabotage a medical conference in Thailand. A non-Chinese scientist had discovered a treatment for Malaria using something from silk worms. Chinese delegates came to dispute the findings with manufactured evidence. They claimed to have disproven the findings on the very day the news was being made public, which was so shamefully obvious that everyone knew the delegation was lying. This is the kind of hard work Tu Youyou's team put in to the advancement of science. I'm not sure if it deserves a nobel prize, though.

Oct 10, 2015 14:15 Report Abuse

Guest2368048

meaning gutter oil will soon be produced from industrial waste, taobao will be selling 99% counterfeit merchandise

Oct 10, 2015 13:18 Report Abuse

Garbo

This is a ploy to keep Chinese students in China .

Oct 10, 2015 09:46 Report Abuse

dom87

most of these rankings are bs. You are the best university if you produce the most phds and are the most famous among the people? What the heck is that? Quantity over quality? Surely a good measurement to find out what is a good university. I know now why German universities are not high ranked... my semester started with 250 students and only 13 could get a bachelor degree. Giving out degrees for free makes you truly the best university. guess only us and china make up this stuff

Oct 10, 2015 08:21 Report Abuse

Englteachted

This is exactly why teachers are not allowed to fail postgrads. Most postgrads waste their time doing errands for their teachers and not going to class. This helps to prop up those BS numbers.

Oct 17, 2015 09:17 Report Abuse