China’s Peking, Tsinghua universities rank in top 30 worldwide

The Chinese mainland’s Peking University and Tsinghua University are among the top 30 institutions in the world, according to Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2018 list , released on Tuesday.

Peking University, located in northeast Beijing’s Haidian District, climbed two spots to claim the 27th position on the list, putting it on par with the UK’s University of Edinburgh and New York University in the US.

Just three kilometers away, Tsinghua University climbed five places to reach the 30th position. Chinese President Xi Jinping’s alma mater bypassed the University of Melbourne, Georgia Institute of Technology, LMU Munich and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in the process.

Global reputations for teaching and research have improved for both institutions this year, the annual report added.

With the addition of Fudan University (116), University of Science and Technology of China (132), Nanjing University (=169), Zhejiang University (=177), and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (=188), the Chinese mainland is the sixth most-represented in the top 200.

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region is also strongly represented on the list, with five universities in the top 200.

(CGTN)