| HKUST among World's Best for Engineering/IT and Science |
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
has been ranked number 20 by The Times Higher Education Supplement
(THES) in its league table of the World's Top 100 Universities in Engineering
& IT, and number 50 in its league table of the World's Top 100 Universities
in Science.
The news, released on December 10, comes just weeks after
the publication's sister paper, The Times of London, ranked HKUST
42nd in its assessment of the world's top 200 universities.
 HKUST
joins the University of California Berkeley (1), Imperial College London
(5), and Peking University (10) among the leading institutions in engineering/IT;
and Cambridge University (1), Harvard University (3) and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (5) among the leading institutions in science.
It is the only Hong Kong representative to attain a top 50 place.
"Seeing our name alongside such renowned schools
as these, the THES tables make clear that HKUST has generated
tremendous respect in the academic community during the last 13 years.
"This is especially true in terms of the reputation
our Schools of Engineering and Science have built for the quality of their
teaching, and for the standard and breadth of their research," said
Prof Paul Chu, President of HKUST.
The THES tables are novel because they are based
purely on a peer review of 1,300 active academics across the world.
As such, the THES comments that its rankings
"have the status of a global opinion poll [in which] the participants
were academics in an increasingly international system, giving their verdict
on subjects in which they are expert".
| The World's
Top Universities (Engineering and IT) |
| 1 |
University of California,
Berkeley (US) |
| 2 |
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (US) |
| 3 |
Stanford University
(US) |
| 4 |
Indian Institutes of Technology (India) |
| 5 |
Imperial College London
(UK) |
| 6 |
California Institute of Technology (US) |
| 7 |
Tokyo University (Japan) |
| 8 |
Cambridge University (UK) |
| 9 |
National University of Singapore (Singapore) |
| 10 |
Peking University (China) |
| 20 |
The Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) |
| 95 |
The Chinese University
of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) |
| The World's
Top Universities (Science) |
| 1 |
Cambridge University
(UK) |
| 2 |
Oxford University (UK) |
| 3 |
Harvard University
(US) |
| 4 |
University of California,
Berkeley (US) |
| 5 |
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology (US) |
| 6 |
Stanford University (US) |
| 7 |
Tokyo University (Japan) |
| 8 |
Princeton University (US) |
| 9 |
California Institute of Technology (US) |
| 10 |
Imperial College London (UK) |
| 50 |
The Hong Kong University
of Science and Technology (Hong Kong) |
| 72 |
The University of Hong
Kong (Hong Kong) |
|
