QS Asian University Rankings 2009

The methodology is different from the THES/QS global rankings--such that Tokyo University is displaced from the top spot by two universities in Hong Kong. That makes it seem more than a little bit quirky.

http://www.topuniversities.com/university_rankings/asianuniversityrankings/

http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/asianuniversityrankings/asian_university_rankings_top_200_universities/

http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/asianuniversityrankings/indicators00/qscom_asian_university_rankings_vs_the_qs_world_university_rankings/

Excerpt of the top ten; see all 200 institutions ranked at the links above.


1 University of HONG KONG Hong Kong
2 The CHINESE University of Hong Kong Hong Kong
3 University of TOKYO Japan
4 HONG KONG University of Science and Tech... Hong Kong
5 KYOTO University Japan
6 OSAKA University Japan
7 KAIST - Korea Advanced Institute of Scie... Korea, South
8 SEOUL National University Korea, South
9 TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan
10= National University of Singapore (NUS) Singapore
10= PEKING University China