National Taiwan University falls to 113th in rankingsROOM TO GROW: After breaking the top 100 in last year’s world rankings, NTU fell behind in key categories, in which it said it would try to improveStaff writer, with CNANational Taiwan University (NTU) was on Thursday ranked the world’s 113th-best university, falling 16 places from its ranking last year in a Times Higher Education survey. The latest rankings used 13 indicators to measure an institution’s performance across five areas: teaching, research, citations, knowledge transfer and international outlook. Its scores in the three most heavily weighted categories — teaching, research and citations — were all down from last year. Taiwan increased the number of universities that made the cut, squeezing 40 schools into the ranking, compared with 38 listed last year. Taipei Medical University was ranked among a group of schools from 201st to 250th, the highest for any university other than NTU since National Tsing Hua University was ranked among the 226-to-250 tier in 2013.

Source: Taipei Times September 03, 2021 15:56 UTC