Three Asian universities in the top 15 for the first time in World University Rankings 2027

Five Hong Kong universities made the global top 100, while National University of Singapore climbed into the top 15

China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University, alongside the National University of Singapore (NUS), have secured places among the world’s top 15 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, marking the first time three Asian institutions have achieved the feat

Tsinghua University overtook Switzerland’s ETH Zurich to climb to 11th place, followed by Peking University in 13th and NUS in 15th

Hong Kong also performed strongly, with five universities making the global top 100

The global top 10 remained dominated by universities from the US and UK, with the University of Oxford retaining the number one position for a record 11th consecutive year

World University Rankings 2027:

　1　University of Oxford, United Kingdom　2　Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States =3　Princeton University, United States =3　Stanford University, United States　5　University of Cambridge, United Kingdom　6　Harvard University, United States　7　California Institute of Technology, United States　8　Imperial College London, United Kingdom =9　University of California, Berkeley, United States =9　Yale University, United States

Beyond the three institutions in the top 15, universities across Asia-Pacific continued to feature prominently in the global top 100:

  11　Tsinghua University, China  13　Peking University, China  15　National University of Singapore  27　The University of Tokyo, Japan  28　Nanyang Technological University, Singapore  33　University of Hong Kong=34　University of Melbourne, Australia=34　Zhejiang University, China  38　Fudan University, China  39　Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China  42　The Chinese University of Hong Kong=51　The University of Sydney, Australia=51　University of Science and Technology of China  56　Seoul National University, South Korea  58　The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology  59　Nanjing University, China  61　Monash University, Australia =62　Kyoto University, Japan  64　Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea  68　Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea  70　City University of Hong Kong=73　The University of Queensland, Australia=75　UNSW Sydney, Australia  77　Australian National University  79　The Hong Kong Polytechnic University  80　Yonsei University (Seoul campus), South Korea  96　Harbin Institute of Technology, China

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Source: www.humanresourcesonline.net