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The key is for universities to provide an environment in which these academics are valued, in which young academics are supported and in which all are free to set their own research agendas.” They attract the best students and the most competitive research funding, so it really is a virtuous circle. “The best academics attract other top academics as well as smart early career academics. “Any university is only as good as the academics it can attract,” she said. Louise Richardson, who was then Oxford’s vice-chancellor, said at the time that the key factor was recruiting the best people. Oxford’s rise that year was attributed to the fact that its total income and research income were rising faster than its staff numbers, its research was more influential, and it had been more successful at drawing in international talent. The University of Oxford became the first UK university to top the THE World University Rankings in the 2017 edition – replacing the five-time leader, the California Institute of Technology, known in the US as Caltech – and it has been at the helm ever since. However, last year’s data suggest that internationalisation is a weak link for the Asian superpower. The Chinese government has consistently invested in higher education and research and development for more than two decades, with funding specifically targeted at developing world-class universities, training scholars at top institutions in the West and building capacity in China. Meanwhile, the data we collect through our Academic Reputation Survey has revealed that international scholars in arts, humanities and social sciences are increasingly recognising Chinese institutions – a notable trend given that the rising global reputation of the country’s universities is usually attributed to its scientific prowess. This meant that some middle-ranking Chinese universities were outperforming some middle-ranking US universities.Ĭhina’s median research income also overtook the US’ for the first time in 2021. Tsinghua is now the highest ranked among them, at 16th.īut perhaps the most striking development was in the 2020 edition, when China became home to the top two universities in Asia for the first time (previously Japan and then Singapore led the continent).Ĭhinese universities have been closing the gap with the US on citation impact since the 2018 edition, and in 2021 the research quality of the middle-ranking universities in the two countries – based on the number of citations achieved by the middle 50 per cent of ranked universities – began to converge for the first time. The 2023 edition features 11 Chinese institutions in the top 200, and four of those are in the top 60.

While Peking University ranked 17th in the world in the first edition of the table in 2004, only four others made the top 200 (the second highest was Tsinghua University in 62nd place). It is difficult to select just one data point summing up China’s extraordinary and consistent rise in the rankings.