Irish universities fail to make top 200 list

China’s Peking University joins the top 30 in 29 place (up from 42 last year), while Tsinghua University joins the top 40 in 35 place (up from joint 47).

Deakin University climbed to the 251-300 band, while La Trobe and Swinburne remained in the 351-400 band and RMIT finished at 401-500.

UT ranked in the 501 to 600 range of this year’s global ratings.

“This continued strong performance is against a backdrop of other European universities suffering in the rankings due to the ascent of Asian institutions”.

Universities NZ boss Chris Whelan said the results were pleasing in a competitive global education market.

“Our position as a world-leading capital city university and one of the great global-civic universities is underpinned by the outstanding reputation of our academics, the quality of our research and the connections, collaborations and truly global focus of our staff and students”.

In May this year NUI Galway and the Gate Theatre announced a partnership to digitise the Gates’s archive, a major resource of theatre scholars and artists internationally. “We want to grow the research enterprise, which is reflected here”.

University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor Professor Deep Saini said it was very pleasing to see the University’s growing reputation in research and teaching, in addition to its increasing worldwide outlook, were recognised in these rankings. That list is more heavily weighted toward undergraduate studies, officials said.

The University of Hong Kong – the best performing local institution – rose one place to 43rd out of 980 universities from 79 countries on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. California Institute of Technology, last year’s top performer, fell to No. 2.

Singapore’s National University of Singapore stood in 24th place, holding the title of Asia’s top university for the second year in a row, while Nanyang Technological University ranked 54th.

The University of MI remained at No. 21.

These three nations performed similarly in last year’s rankings. “These are great initiatives for the university sector”, he said. The other top-200 universities are British Columbia (36), McGill (42), Montréal (103), Alberta (107), McMaster (113) and Waterloo (173).

The rankings published on Wednesday night put IISc at striking distance of the coveted top 200 list.

When a college is performing well, it uses that information to promote itself.

Their decline in the Times Higher Education rankings follow a similar fall for both Trinity and UCD in the QS rankings a few weeks ago.

For example, IIT-Delhi has around 1% of its faculty from outside the country.

“Such large changes are not uncommon with this ranking and are hard to account for”, she said in a written statement. The varying ranking systems measure similar attributes but differ in the data sets they collect. The United States led the list with 148 schools included in the field.