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Where China's Universities Rank

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

US News & World Report just came out with its rankings of the best universities in the World (h/t to Above the Law, which had my firm being acquired by Baker & McKenzie?) US News' rankings of US colleges and universities are hugely influential in terms of where people apply to college. Many in the US love to criticize the rankings, but I consider them to be substantially accurate. Mainland China universities took down six of the top thirty slots of best universities in Asia and the Middle East (more accurately, Asia and Israel, as no other Middle Eastern country had any top universities). Hong Kong had four schools in the top thirty, including three in the top ten. Taiwan had one school in the list of thirty. Peking University was deemed China' best school, with Tsinghua second and Fudan third. The top thirty in Asia and Israel is as follows: 1 University of Tokyo, Japan 2 Kyoto University, Japan 3 University of Hong Kong, HK 4 National University of Singapore (NUS) 5 Hong Kong University of Science & Technology 6 The Chinese University of Hong Kong 7 Osaka University, Japan 8 Peking University, China 8 Seoul National University, South Korea 10 Tsinghua University, China 11 Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan 12 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 13 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 14 Kaist - Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology 15 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology 16 Tohoku University, Japan 17 Fudan University, China 18 Tel Aviv University, Israel 19 Nagoya University, Japan 20 National Taiwan University, Taiwan 21 University of Science and Technology of China 22 Nanjing University, China 23 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China 24 City University of Hong Kong, HK 25 Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IITD), India 26 Kyushu University, Japan 27 Chulalongkorn University, Thailand 28 Hokkaido University, Japan 28 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India 30 Waseda University, Japan All of the top 15 schools in the world are in the United States or the United Kingdom. Tokyo University is the only Asian school in the top twenty. Peking University is ranked 50th. For all of the lists, along with the methodology, go here. UPDATE: A Modern Lei Feng has posted on this as well, in a post entitled, "Interesting But Relevant?"

Full post as published by China Law Blog on November 22, 2008 (boomark / email).