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Overall Ranking
Multi-Disciplinary Schools

Overall | Academic reputation | Student selectivity | Faculty resources
Research | Financial Resources | Students per academic staffmember
Graduate Students | Citations in international journals | Internet bandwidth


Rank Multi-Disciplinary Schools Overall Score 100% Rank 1999
1 Kyoto University 83.17 2
2 Tohoku University (Japan) 83.05 1
3 University of Hong Kong 82.55 4
4 Seoul National University 81.96 3
5 National University of Singapore 77.96 6
6 Chinese University of Hong Kong 77.90 7
7 Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 76.62 11
8 Australian National University 72.97 13
9 University of Melbourne 72.24 10
10 University of New South Wales 70.62 8
11 Nagoya University 70.14 14
12 Taiwan University* 69.57 5
13 University of Sydney 69.03 15
14 Korea University 68.30 16
15 Kyushu University 68.11 18
16 Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)* 68.08 12
17 Yonsei University* 67.41 9
18 Tsing Hua University (Taiwan)* 67.13 17
19 Hokkaido University 65.59
20 Sun Yat-sen University (Taiwan) 65.14 22
21 University of Auckland 64.30 33
22 Keio University* 63.58 20
23 University of Western Australia 63.45 25
24 Central University (Taiwan)* 63.24 21
25 University of Queensland 63.15 19
26 University of Adelaide 63.10 34
27 City University of Hong Kong 63.06 50
28 Chao Toung University (Taiwan)* 61.87 24
29 Waseda University 61.57 23
30 Monash University 61.53 46
31 Sogang University 61.13 35
32 Ewha Womans University 61.07 26
33 Sungkyunkwan University 60.79 28
34 Chonnam National University 60.71 48
35 Kyungpook National University 60.63 53
36 Kyung Hee University 58.53 55
37 Taiwan Normal University* 58.24 31
38 Hanyang University 57.77 43
39 Pusan National University 57.43 40
40 Jawaharlal Nehru University (India) 56.92 41
41 University of Otago 56.87 47
42 Tongji University (China) 56.81 30
43 Chonbuk National University 56.79
44 Chengchi University (Taiwan)* 56.35 54
45 University of Wollongong 55.90 59
46 Tianjin University (China) 54.90
47 University of Malaya 54.20 27
48 University of the Philippines 53.79 32
49 Ochanomizu University 53.60 49
50 Chungnam National University 53.60 62
51 Thammasat University 53.46 38
52 Universiti Putra Malaysia 53.11 69
53 Prince of Songkla University 52.26 44
54 Xi'an Jiaotong University (China) 52.24
55 Victoria University of Wellington 51.59 68
56 Macquarie University 51.42 51
57 Universiti Sains Malaysia 51.33 42
58 University of Canterbury 51.20 64
59 Khon Kaen University 50.98
60 Southeast University (China) 50.72 65
61 University of Indonesia 49.89 70
62 Chiang Mai University 49.17 66
63 Kasetsart University 48.98
64 University of Dhaka 48.67 37
65 Chung Hsing University (Taiwan)* 48.17 58
66 Aoyama Gakuin University 46.39 72
67 Ritsumeikan University 46.39 60
68 Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia)* 45.92 67
69 Doshisha University 45.82 57
70 Fu Jen Catholic University (Taiwan) 44.49 63
71 De La Salle University 43.54 76
72 Ateneo de Manila University 43.51 71
73 Diponegoro University (Indonesia) 43.25 77
74 University of Santo Tomas 41.69 78
75 Airlangga University (Indonesia) 40.96 79
76 University of Mumbai 34.49
77 University of Colombo 34.32 75

*Data from 1999 questionnaires supplemented by updated numbers from other sources were used for these universities. Multi-disciplinary universities offer a broad spectrum of courses from arts to business to engineering. Science and technology schools have a more specialized focus.
Academic Reputation: Each university was asked to rate its peers on a scale of 1 to 5. Thirty Asian corporations and 11 foreign universities (among them Columbia University, University of California Los Angeles and University of Leicester) also gave ratings. The total score was divided by the number of responses.
Student Selectivity: Derived from 1) number of first-year students accepted compared with total applicants, 2) enrollees compared with accepted students, 3) median score of first-year students in the national or university entrance test. Extra 2 points were awarded to schools whose educational systems or individual policies severely restrict the number of university applicants.
Faculty Resources: Derived from 1) full-time teachers/researchers with PhD degrees, 2) full-time teachers/researchers with master's and PhD degrees, 3) median pay, 4) per-teacher university spending, and 5) student-teacher ratio. Extra 2 points were awarded to universities that grant non-monetary benefits such as free housing.
Research: Derived from 1) citations in academic journals as tracked by the Journal Citation Index, 2) articles in peer-reviewed journals, 3) papers presented in international conferences, 4) published books, 5) research funding, and 6) graduate students.
Financial resources: Derived from 1) total spending per student, 2) library spending per student, 3) Internet bandwidth and 4) public computers and connection points. A sixth attribute, laboratory spending, was added for science and technology schools.
Other Notes: Variables were ranked from highest to lowest, with the top university given 100 points. The others were assigned points as a percentage of the highest score. When a piece of data is not available, ratios from the 1999 survey or the lowest score of a school from the same country were used. All money figures were converted into Purchasing-Power Parity dollars, based on World Bank ratios.

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