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June
2015
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Asia/Singapore

NUS maintains position as Asia's Top 2 in latest Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings

The National University of Singapore (NUS) has maintained its position as one of Asia's top two universities in the latest Asia University Rankings 2015 published by the Times Higher Education (THE) magazine.

The rankings, which are based on the same performance indicators and methodology as the established THE World University Rankings, uses 13 separate performance indicators to examine each university's strengths against its core missions of teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

NUS President Professor Tan Chorh Chuan said,'We are pleased that NUS has been placed once again among the top two universities in the latest Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings this year. The results reflect the University's strong progress as a highly-ranked, leading global centre of education and research.

NUS has continued to put strong emphasis on our core strategies of innovating in global education, further growing our expertise and research impact in areas of critical importance to Asia and the world, and strengthening our strategic partnerships both in Singapore and internationally. Going ahead, in addition to these, we will be intensifying our focus on ensuring that our graduates are future-ready, on substantially raising the translational impact of NUS' research, and in making the NUS enterprise ecosystem one of the most vibrant in Asia.'

Mr Phil Baty, Editor, Times Higher Education Rankings, said,'NUS has retained its position as the number two in Asia – but it is edging close to Asia's number one ranked university, the University of Tokyo, and may soon overtake it. In 2014, there was a four-point gap in the overall scores between NUS in second and Tokyo in first place. This year that gap has reduced to just 2.8 points. NUS is already ahead of Tokyo in its scores for international outlook and industry links – which are strong indicators of future success.'

The full results of the Times Higher Education Asia University Rankings are available at https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/.