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World University Rankings® Asia 2019 The Top 250 Universities in Asia 2019 King Abdulaziz University www.kau.edu.sa RESEARCH EXCELLENCE IN MATHEMATICS WITH OVER 170,000 STUDENTS, WE ARE A BEACON OF KNOWLEDGE WITH A RICH TRADITION OF DIVERSITY. Future academics and enthusiastic post-graduate students will benet from the high standard of teaching and research facilities KAU have to oer. The Future. Inspired by research. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia QS World University Rankings® Asia 2019: Welcome Selina Griffin Dennis Yu Rankings Manager Rankings Analyst QS Quacquarelli Symonds QS Quacquarelli Symonds Welcome to this, the 10th edition dimension, assessing the international of the QS Asia University Rankings, diversity of institutions with which which was first launched back in the university has collaborated in its 2009. This new 2019 edition provides research. The weighting alterations independent comparative data that we have made to accommodate for - the first time - the top 500 this new dimension will be covered institutions in Asia. in the Methodology section of this supplement, and we believe that this Asian universities are increasingly new indicator is a welcome addition to encroaching on the top universities our regional methodologies. globally, with two institutions just outside the top ten, and 12 The other notable development in the in the top 50. This means that QS Asia University Ranking 2019 is that the QS Asia University Rankings it forms the parent ranking for two 2019 is a more competitive new locational rankings – the QS Japan landscape than ever before. University Rankings 2019 and the QS South Korea University Rankings 2019. For this edition of the ranking, we These new rankings enumerate the have taken the decision to alter the top 75 universities from Japan and the methodology by introducing a new top 50 from South Korea, listing them indicator. This new indicator was as their own separate ranking so that first trialled in the QS Latin America institutions in these areas can more University Rankings 2019 and has now easily view and benchmark themselves been rolled out to all our other regional directly with their local competitors. rankings (except BRICS). International Research Network combines robust We hope you enjoy the QS ASIA research data from Elsevier’s Scopus University Rankings 2019. database with an international QS World University Rankings Asia 2019 3 Times ad LEFT PAGE OL.indd 1 10/9/18 3:54 pm QS World University Rankings Asia 2019: Methodology Selina Griffin Rankings Manager QS Quacquarelli Symonds For the QS Asia University Rankings From this edition, eleven indicators dual dimensions of productivity in 2019 we have added a new are used to form this regional the form of Papers per Faculty (which indicator and, therefore, a revised ranking of universities: has this year been reduced from methodology for this tenth edition. 10% to 5% in order to accommodate INDICATORS International Research Network) and This methodology differs from that impact in the shape of Citations per used for the QS World University Global Reputation Paper. As with the QS World University Rankings®. The unique approach Rankings®, we are using a publications of the regional rankings is based on ACADEMIC REPUTATION 30% window of papers published between feedback collected from the region, 2012-2016 and a six year citation the expert identification of those Results are taken from the annual window from 2012-2017. factors of most importance to the survey conducted by QS, which is region, and the availability of data. designed to evaluate the perceptions These indicators are calculated using Like QS’s other rankings, it examines of academics from around the world data acquired from Elsevier’s Scopus university performance according to regarding the best institutions in database. Furthermore, only those the four pillars of teaching, research, terms of research. For this 2019 institutions producing more than employability and internationalization. edition, over 83,000 responses 150 papers in the last five years are This latest edition involves a new were recorded globally. evaluated in the citations per faculty indicator that combines elements of indicator. The rest of the data is treated both research and internationalization EMPLOYER REPUTATION 20% in the same way as for the QS World into one by examining the diversity Taken from the annual QS Employer University Rankings®: self-citations are of an institution’s international Survey, which aims to gather excluded from the analysis, the paper research collaborations. the views of employers around and citations data are normalized, the world regarding the relative ensuring the citations achieved in Unique to this edition, the QS Asia abilities of institutions to provide each of the five broad faculty areas University Ranking also forms the successful, employable graduates. are weighted equally and a variable parent ranking for two new locational For the 2019 edition, close to 43,000 affiliation cap is in place to exclude rankings – Japan and South Korea. responses were analysed. any anomalous results where a paper This means that the methodology has an extraordinarily high number of behind these additional rankings tables Research affiliations for its field. is that which is used in the QS Asia University Rankings, but provides a CITATIONS PER PAPERS 10% / INTERNATIONAL more immediately-accessible means PAPERS PER FACULTY 5% RESEARCH NETWORK 10% NEW by which universities and students For the regional rankings we take a Using Scopus data and the same can benchmark themselves against slightly different approach to that seen publishing window as the rest of the their national peers. in QS World University Rankings®. research indicators, this new indicator We use two indicators to evaluate the first appeared in QS’s Latin America QS World University Rankings Asia 2019 5 University Rankings and has since been Internationalization incorporated into the other regional exercises. The indicator uses the INTERNATIONAL FACULTY 2.5% Margalef Index to assess the degree The international Faculty Index simply of international diversity in terms measures the proportion of faculty of research collaboration for each members that are international. It is a evaluated institution. This indicator proxy measure for how internationally- uniquely combines research with attractive the university is to academic internationalization to offer insight staff. Universities based in locations into the extent a university’s research known for attracting high proportions of activities are global. expatriates perform well here, such as those in Hong Kong and Singapore Teaching Commitment INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS 2.5% STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO 10% Similar in nature to the International This is the ratio between the number Faculty Index, the International Students of academic staff and number of Index is based on the proportion of students. A higher number of teachers students that are international. It is a per student is an indirect indicator of proxy measure for how internationally the commitment of that institution to attractive the university is to students. high-quality teaching. The weighting Attracting international faculty and for this indicator has been reduced students can be challenging for from 15% in previous editions to 10% institutions that are more nationally to accommodate the International or regionally focused. Research Network indicator. INBOUND EXCHANGE STUDENTS 2.5% STAFF WITH PHD 5% The Staff with PhD is a proxy measure OUTBOUND for teaching quality. It reflects a EXCHANGE STUDENTS 2.5% university’s commitment to ensuring Uniquely among QS’ rankings, that they are acquiring faculty the proportion of inbound and members with expertise in their outbound exchange students is field – a commitment that can be measured, assessing via proxy expected to lead to improved research the quality of a university’s and teaching alike. international outreach attempts. These two indicators in tandem Both metrics account for 2.5% of measure a university’s commitment an institution’s final score. In the to facilitating high-quality interaction same vein, QS note that places at the between teachers and students. world’s top universities are coveted by academics and students alike across the globe, and that internationalisation allows a university to choose between the world’s best. 6 QS World University Rankings Asia 2019 QS World University Rankings Asia 2019: Overview Martin Ince Chair of the Global Academic Advisory Board of the QS World University Rankings and writer and journalist in the fields of higher education and science Asia’s top universities are often big on average, even allowing for the five- players in small jurisdictions. The place fall experienced by the University National University of Singapore and of Science and Technology of China, Nanyang Technological University, now in 28th position. also in Singapore, take first and equal third place respectively in the These rankings have been compiled 2019 World University Rankings for on the basis of eleven criteria, Asia, while second spot goes to the including some shared with the main University of Hong Kong. Also in the QS World University Rankings. These top 10 are Hong Kong University of include academic and employer Science and Technology at seventh, opinion, faculty/student ratio, and the Chinese University of Hong citations, and international faculty and Kong in ninth place. student proportions. These findings suggest that historic For the Asia Ranking, these measures links to the English-speaking world are supplemented by several additional are still a bonus for Asian institutions. measures. These include international However, a look at the upper reaches exchange students, an important part of this ranking shows too that China, of the student experience in Asia as Korea and Japan take continue to well as being a significant means by dominate elite higher education in Asia, which universities internationalise their occupying 14 of the top 20 positions. campuses. We also count faculty with a PhD, and the volume of academic There are signs too that China is now papers they produce.