AFP Analysis: "Asia moves up university league table"

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hfjHdVEHOMBAY9e4I-DDKExDC59g

Asia moves up university league table

(AFP) Oct 8, 2009

LONDON

excerpts (see link above for full article):

>>US and British universities dominate the top of a league table of universities worldwide published Thursday, but Asian seats of learning are moving up the global rankings.<<

>>But Asian universities, while still struggling to break into the top 20, are moving upwards, with numbers in the top 200 growing in Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Malaysia.<<

THES - QS University Rankings for 2008

The rankings for this year have been published and the entire rankings and a lot of useful information about the institutions that made the list can easily be accessed starting at the Rankings homepage:

http://www.topuniversities.com/

Complete rankings:

http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/overall_rankings/fullrankings/

Top 100:

http://www.topuniversities.com/university_rankings/results/2008/overall_rankings/top_100_universities/

Universities in Japan that made the global top 100 rankings:

19 University of TOKYO Japan
25 KYOTO University Japan
44 OSAKA University Japan
61 TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan

Top technology institutions:

http://www.topuniversities.com/worlduniversityrankings/results/2008/subject_rankings/technology/

Technology institutions in Japan that made the global technology top 100:

9 University of TOKYO Japan 67.4
21 TOKYO Institute of Technology Japan 57.0
22 KYOTO University Japan 56.8
49 OSAKA University Japan 42.3
98 TOHOKU University Japan 32.7

Summary of the results from a Japan higher education perspective.

Todai slipped back a bit. Perhaps Kyodai's rankings are too low considering its Nobel winners this year. Tokyo Institue of Technology continues to be a fast riser.

Cache of Japan HE articles at THES

At least for a while, it appears Times Higher Education Supplement, which recently re-launched its online presence, is making its archived news content available for free.

The following link is actually a search of the archive which I did using my name, 'Jannuzi', as the search term. It called up 17 articles that I wrote for THES between 2000-2006.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/search_results.asp?qkeyword=jannuzi&categories=0&sections=0&issue=0&x=230&y=84

The articles of 2005-6 are for the most part still current. The analysis articles on the reform and re-chartering of Japan's national universities, which appeared in 2000-1, prove surprisingly predictive and accurate given the limited information I had to work with at the time.

I plan to draw on some of these past articles for future discussions at the Japan Higher Education Outlook Blog in the near future.