HKUST Ranks No 1 in Asia for third straight year

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) was just named the top university in Asia for the third straight year by the a British educational agency, Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) University Rankings: Asia.

Ben Sowter, Head of Research at QS Intelligence Unit highlighted that Asian higher education is undergoing a rapid transformation. The Chinese mainalnd, Hong Kong, Singapore and Korea are at the forefront of the assault on the global academic leadership positions. There are already 17% more Asian universities in the global top 200 since the recession, and the next two decades could see leading US and European universities objectively overtaken.

QSis a renowned information specialist in the higher education sector. With almost 500 universities examined and record response levels to its academic and employer surveys, theQS Asian University Rankingsrepresent the most extensive study of Asian institutions ever conducted. Published for the first time in 2009, theQS University Rankings: Asiais published annually and ranks Asia's top universities based on relevant criteria including: academic reputation (30%), employer reputation (10%), student / faculty ratio (20%), papers per faculty (15%), citations per paper (15%), internationalization (5%), student exchange inbound (2.5%) and student exchange outbound (2.5%).