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Five Hong Kong universities made the global top 100, while National University of Singapore climbed into the top 15.
China’s Tsinghua University and Peking University, alongside the National University of Singapore (NUS), have secured places among the world’s top 15 universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, marking the first time three Asian institutions have achieved the feat.
Tsinghua University overtook Switzerland’s ETH Zurich to climb to 11th place, followed by Peking University in 13th and NUS in 15th.
Hong Kong also performed strongly, with five universities making the global top 100.
The global top 10 remained dominated by universities from the US and UK, with the University of Oxford retaining the number one position for a record 11th consecutive year.
World University Rankings 2027:
1 University of Oxford, United Kingdom
2 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
=3 Princeton University, United States
=3 Stanford University, United States
5 University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
6 Harvard University, United States
7 California Institute of Technology, United States
8 Imperial College London, United Kingdom
=9 University of California, Berkeley, United States
=9 Yale University, United States
Beyond the three institutions in the top 15, universities across Asia-Pacific continued to feature prominently in the global top 100:
11 Tsinghua University, China
13 Peking University, China
15 National University of Singapore
27 The University of Tokyo, Japan
28 Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
33 University of Hong Kong
=34 University of Melbourne, Australia
=34 Zhejiang University, China
38 Fudan University, China
39 Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
42 The Chinese University of Hong Kong
=51 The University of Sydney, Australia
=51 University of Science and Technology of China
56 Seoul National University, South Korea
58 The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
59 Nanjing University, China
61 Monash University, Australia
=62 Kyoto University, Japan
64 Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), South Korea
68 Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea
70 City University of Hong Kong
=73 The University of Queensland, Australia
=75 UNSW Sydney, Australia
77 Australian National University
79 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
80 Yonsei University (Seoul campus), South Korea
96 Harbin Institute of Technology, China
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