These are the new highest-ranked universities in Southeast Asia for 2023

Times Higher Education (THE) has released a new ranked list of the best universities in the world, with over 1,799 institutions from across the globe put together in a definitive list formulated on various criteria. The rankings were based on factors like teaching, research, citations, industry income, and each university’s international standing. You can view the methodology here .

The top 10 universities in the world: 1. University of Oxford 2. Harvard University 3.

University of Cambridge 4. Stanford University 5. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 6.

California Institute of Technology 7. Princeton University 8. University of California, Berkeley 9.

Yale University 10. Imperial College London While the usual suspects made it to the very top (Oxford, Harvard, Cambridge, MIT, etc), there were some subtle shifts in the rankings that indicated a slow but obvious trend of higher learning institutions in East Asia and the Middle East earning relevance as more-than-decent places to pursue a degree. China, for instance, now has seven universities in the list — up from just two in 2018, while Hong Kong and Japan have managed to add more names to the list.

In Southeast Asia, the trend of Singapore’s top two universities ranking among the world’s best remains unchanged. The National University of Singapore has climbed two places since last year into 19th place, and now sits among the top 20 universities in the world. Nanyang Technological University has also impressively scaled the ladder to sit at the global 36th spot, up 10 places from last year.

In Malaysia, the rankings also see many familiar names dominate the country’s top institutions, although Sunway University has now secured itself among Malaysia’s top 10. See the rankings for the top-ranked institutions in Southeast Asia below. The top universities from Southeast Asia are as follows, with rankings relative to the rest of the world: *Only universities within top 1,200 in the world listed.

Singapore: 1. National University of Singapore (19th) 2. Nanyang Technological University (36th) Malaysia: 1.

University of Malaya (top 351 to 400) 2. Universiti Teknologi Petronas (top 401 to 500) 3. University Utara Malaysia (top 401 to 500) 4.

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (top 601 to 800) 5. Universiti Putra Malaysia (top 601 to 800) 6. Universiti Sains Malaysia (top 601 to 800) 7.

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (top 601 to 800) 8. Universiti Malaysia Pahang (top 801 to 1,000) 9. Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris (top 801 to 1,000) 10.

Sunway University (top 801 to 1,000) 11. Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) (top 801 to 1,000) 12. University Malaysia Perlis (top 1,001 to 1,200) 13.

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (top 1,001 to 1,200) Thailand: 1. Chulalongkorn University (top 801 to 1,000) 2. King Mongkut’s University of Technology Chonburi (top 801 to 1,000) 3.

Mae Fah Luang University (top 801 to 1,000) 4. Mahidol University (top 801 to 1,000) 5. Chiang Mai University (top 1,001 to 1,200) Indonesia: 1.

University of Indonesia (top 1,001 to 1,200) Philippines: 1. Ateneo de Manila University (top 351 to 400) 2. University of the Philippines (top 801 to 1,000) Vietnam: 1.

Duy Tan University (top 401 to 500) 2. Ton Duc Thang University (top 401 to 500) 3. Vietnam Hanoi University (top 1,001 to 1,200) Brunei Darussalam: 1.

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