Tsinghua University surpasses National University of Singapore for the first time and becomes the first in Asia; Soochow University becomes the dark horse of 211 disciplines丨US News 2021

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The latest US News 2021 World University Rankings list has been released.

Compared with previous rankings, this is the first time that Tsinghua University has surpassed the National University of Singapore to become the top-ranked university in Asia.

Compared with last year, the top three universities in the world have not changed, and they are still Harvard, Stanford and MIT.

But from the perspective of disciplines, China's performance this year is very impressive - Mechanical Engineering Among the top 10 universities, China has 9.

In addition, many domestic universities are also on the list in disciplines such as chemical engineering, electronic engineering, and civil engineering.

This time, there are four domestic universities entering the top 100 in the world rankings, namely Tsinghua University (28) , Peking University (51) , the University of Hong Kong (83) , and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (95) .

Let’s take a look at the details of the list.

Overall ranking

Compared with last year, there are not many changes in the top ten universities in the US News 2021 ranking. Only Princeton University dropped from 8th last year to 11th, while Johns Hopkins University rose to 10th.

Among the top ten, except for Oxford University and Cambridge University, which are from the UK, the remaining eight are from the United States .

The top 10 universities in the world are as follows:

1. Harvard University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
3. Stanford University
4. University of California, Berkeley
5. University of Oxford 6.
Columbia University
7. California Institute of Technology 8.
University of Washington
9. University of Cambridge 10.
Johns Hopkins University

In addition, this year is the first time that Tsinghua University surpassed the National University of Singapore and ranked first in Asia .

The top 10 universities in Asia are:

1. Tsinghua University
2. National University of Singapore
3. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
4. King Abdul Aziz University 5.
Peking University 6.
University of Tokyo
7. University of Hong Kong
8. Chinese University of Hong Kong
9. Weizmann Institute of Science
10. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Computer Science: CMU ranks among the top three

In the US News 2021 list, the ranking of computer majors, which has always attracted attention, has undergone major changes this year.

The biggest change is that CMU (Carnegie Mellon University) , which had never been ranked in the top 10 , has finally ranked among the top three in computer science.

The world rankings for computer science disciplines are as follows:

1. Stanford University
2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3. Carnegie Mellon University 4.
Tsinghua University 5. University of California, Berkeley 6. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich 7. Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 8. National University of Singapore 9. University of Washington 10. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

In addition, in the ranking of computer science, these universities are ranked in the top 50:

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (11) , Peking University (15) , Shanghai Jiao Tong University (19) , Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (22) , Zhejiang University (26) , City University of Hong Kong (36) , Hong Kong Polytechnic University (36) , Harbin Institute of Technology (41) , Huazhong University of Science and Technology (42) , University of Science and Technology of China (45) , Wuhan University (49) , Xidian University (50)

Engineering disciplines at domestic universities are outstanding

From the perspective of academic disciplines, compared with last year, the number of academic disciplines and schools ranked in the top 10 in the world in China has increased this year.

Tsinghua University performed the best, with three disciplines (chemical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and engineering) ranked first in the world.

In addition, three subjects (civil engineering, energy and fuels, and nanoscience and nanotechnology) ranked second in the world, and two subjects (materials science and mechanical engineering) ranked third in the world.

In addition to Tsinghua University, disciplines in other universities also performed well.

For example, Tongji University's civil engineering ranked first in the world; Soochow University, as a 211 university, has two disciplines ranked in the top 10 in the world; and among the top 10 mechanical engineering, China has 9.

The top 10 schools in the world by subject are as follows:

Mechanical Engineering : Xi'an Jiaotong University, Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Hunan University, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Beihang University, University of Science and Technology of China (9 universities)

Nanoscience and nanotechnology : Tsinghua University, Soochow University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, University of Science and Technology of China, Zhejiang University (6 institutions)

Chemical Engineering : Tsinghua University, Wuhan University, Hunan University, South China University of Technology, Soochow University, Harbin Institute of Technology (6 universities)

Electrical and Electronic Engineering : Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Southeast University, Zhejiang University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (Chengdu), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (6 institutions)

Energy and Fuel : Tsinghua University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Hunan University, Wuhan University of Technology, South China University of Technology (6)

Civil Engineering : Tongji University, Tsinghua University, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Southeast University, Beijing Jiaotong University (5 universities)

Engineering : Tsinghua University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (4 institutions)

Materials Science : Tsinghua University, Peking University, and University of Science and Technology of China (3 universities)

Chemistry : Tsinghua University, University of Science and Technology of China (2 institutions)

Physics : Tsinghua University (1 institute)

Biotechnology and Applied Microbiology : University of Science and Technology of China (1 institute)

Looking at the overall situation of Chinese universities, according to the US News list, the top 10 are as follows:

US News ranking changes

So, what are the statistical changes in this year's list compared to last year?

Compared to last year, the number of countries included in US News has increased from 81 to 86 , and the number of papers required of institutions has dropped from 1,500 to 1,250 in 2014-2018 .

The specific score weight ratios, in addition to the increase in the weight of meetings , have also changed slightly compared to last year, as follows:

(Among them, international reputation and regional reputation are derived from 30,222 respondents rating the subjects and courses that the school is familiar with, of which 93% are scholars from schools/academic institutions; international collaboration refers to the proportion of international collaborators among the authors of the institution’s papers)

However, once the list was released, controversy also arose. For example, in this ranking, Shandong Qufu Normal University actually surpassed Peking University in the mathematics subject ranking and ranked first in the country.

What do you think of this list?

USNews 2021 ranking link:
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/rankings

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